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	21-Aug-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists bucolic [ byoo-KOL-ik ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) relating to or suggestive of typical rural life 2. (adj.) of or pertaining to herdsmen or shepherds; pastoral 3. (n.) (archaic) a country person; peasant; a rustic 4. (n.) a pastoral poem   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Highly stressed urban executives in Mumbai are increasingly looking at bucolic idylls in which to spend their holidays.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Tucked away quietly in the middle of the Alps, this immensely rich and powerful nation still manages to portray itself as the perfect bucolic idyll. BBC, Swiss shaken by row of disasters, 25 October, 2001   regimen [ REJ-uh'-muh' n, -men, REZH- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. rule or control exercised by the government 2. a strict, regulated exercise and dietary routine   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He followed a strict regimen to lose weight.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He suggested that patients talk to their doctors about starting an exercise regimen after weight-loss surgery. abcNews, Exercise May Speed Weight Loss After Gastric Bypass, Exercise May Speed Weight Loss After Gastric Bypass, December 3, 2008   insularity [ IN-suh'-lar-ity ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. an isolated existence 2. pertaining to or like an island   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Their backwardness stems from the insularity of their community.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The county game continues to be ruled by insularity and self-interest. The Telegraph, Simon Hughes: a decade on, England remain firmly in the middle of the road, Simon Hughes, 24 December 2009.   cul-de-sac [ KUHL-duh'-SAK, -sak, KOO'L; Fr. Ky*duh*-sa*k ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a street or lane that is closed at one end 2. a situation or place where a person is trapped   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The older cities in Europe are notorious for having many cul-de-sacs.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   1)At the end of a cul-de-sac, Spellmire gestured toward a wide open field we could see in the distance beyond the slim side yards of the big houses. 2)"It's a bit of a cul-de-sac, so in that sense you would get speciation where something wanders off on its own." 1) National Geographic, Urban Sprawl Republished National Geographic magazine, Written by John G. Mitchell, April 2007 2) National Geographic, "First European" Confirmed to Be 1.2 Million Years Old, James Owen, March 26, 2008   parsimonious [ pahr-suh'-MOH-nee-uh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   frugal, stingy, sparing or miserly   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The parsimonious merchant was wealthy.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Gatland's brand of rugby is several times more robust than the champagne version of 2005, with a defence as parsimonious as anything the game has seen. BBC, Six Nations lives up to hype, By Tom Fordyce, 17 March 2008   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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