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	14-Apr-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists acrid [ AK-rid ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. bitterly pungent, irritating or stinging to inhale or taste 2. caustic, bitter or acrimonious   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The detergent has an acrid smell.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Another eyewitness David Buik, who was watching the blaze from his offices in Canary Wharf, said the fire was producing acrid smoke. CNN, Olympic site blaze clouds London, November 12, 2007   effrontery [ i-FRUHN-tuh'-ree ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   temerity, audacity or brazen boldness   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The people were shocked at his effrontery.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It is an effrontery for the House of Commons to make the deeply hypocritical move of exempting itself from a law that applies to every other public body in the country. BBC, Brown will not block secrecy bid, 18May 2007   monotheism [ MON-uh'-thee-iz-uh'm  ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the doctrine that only one God exists 2. a belief in one God   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   They were convinced of monotheism and firmly believed that they worshipped one true God.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   ""The way I have discovered . . . is that the truth at the beating heart of monotheism is that God transcends the particularities of culture and the limits of human understanding. The Telegraph, Chief Rabbi revises book after attack by critics, Jonathan Petre, 5 February 2003.   noisome [ NOI-suh' m ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. obnoxious or harmful 2. very offensive to the point of arousing disgust   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The noisome odour emanating from the alley compelled us to change our route.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The most noisome moment in this country, from the announcement of the production through its roll-out, came when a driver rammed a converted school bus into an empty theater lobby in Ithaca, N.Y., injuring only himself. Los Angles Times, 'Hollywood Under Siege' by Thomas R. Lindlof, By Fred Schruers, July 24, 2008   bete noire [ beyt NWAHR; Fr. bet NWAR* ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a person or thing especially disliked or to be avoided 2. bugbear, bane   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She was termed a bete noire and shunned for life.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Kadhafi, who for years was Washington's bete noire, underscored what he said was the "need to give an historic world opportunity to President Obama and the new America ... to permit the new America to be a state that is loving of peoples and freedom." The Times of India, Libya's Kadhafi says Obama means a 'new America', 22 January 2009   Spelled Pronunciation Key Stress marks: [ CAPS ] indicates the primary stressed syllable, as in newspaper [NOOZ-pey-per ] and information [ in-fer-MEY-shuh' n ] CONSONANTS [b] boy, baby, rob [d] do, ladder, bed [f] food, offer, safe [g] get, bigger, dog [h] happy, ahead [j] jump, budget, age [k] can, speaker, stick [l] let, follow, still [m] make, summer, time [n] no, dinner, thin [ng] singer, think, long [p] put, apple, cup [r] run, marry, far, store [s] sit, city, passing, face [sh] she, station, push [t] top, better, cat [ch] church, watching, nature, witch [th] thirsty, nothing, math [th'] this, mother, breathe [v] very, seven, love [w] wear, away [hw] where, somewhat [y] yes, onion [z] zoo, easy, buzz [zh] measure, television, beige   VOWELS [a] apple, can, hat [ey] aid, hate, day [ah] arm, father, aha [air] air, careful, wear [aw] all, or, talk, lost, saw [e] ever, head, get [ee] eat, see, need [eer] ear, hero, beer [er] teacher, afterward, murderer [i] it, big, finishes [ahy] I, ice, hide, deny [o] odd, hot, woffle [oh] owe, road, below [oo] ooze, food, soup, sue [oo'] good, book, put [oi] oil, choice, toy [ou] out, loud, how [uh] up, mother, mud [uh'] about, animal, problem, circus [ur] early, bird, stirring   FOREIGN SOUNDS [a*] Fr. ami [kh*] Scot. loch, Ger. ach or ich [œ] Fr. feu, Ger. schön [r*] Fr. au revoir, Yiddish rebbe [uh*] Fr. oeuvre [y*] Fr. tu, Ger. über   SAMPLE NASALIZED VOWELS [an*] Fr. bien [ahn*] Fr. croissant [awn*] Fr. bon [œn*] Fr. parfum [in*] Port. 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