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	02-Apr-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists wean [ ween ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to accustom a young mammal to take its nourishment from means other than its mother's milk 2. to cause to get detached from a habit or source of one's attachment   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Babies are weaned at nine months.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A limitless renewable energy source that can wean humans off fossil fuels has existed for billions of years, according to the latest report from a "green" scientist. National Geographic, Splitting Water Molecules the Next "Green" Power Source?, by Brian Handwerk, March 5, 2007   truculence [ TRUHK-yuh'-luh'n-see, TROO-kyuh'- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. an inclination to fight ferociously 2. fiercely cruel actions   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   They were from a village of savaged warriors and knew of nothing other than truculence.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Bush and his aides tried to draw a distinction between Iraq and North Korea by pointing to their record of defiance: though Saddam refused for four years to allow the world to check whether he was trying to obtain nuclear weapons, North Korea, until this recent bout of truculence, had at least frozen its plutonium process. CNN, How dangerous Is North Korea? Romesh Ratnesar, 6 January 2003   fructify [ FRUHK-tuh'-fahy ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to make productive or make fruitful 2. (intr. v.) to bear fruit 4. (intr. v.) to become fruitful or productive   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Overhauling the old machinery fructified with a 30% enhanced production.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Only in the second and third terms did his personal ideas fructify into his "choice and diversity" agenda, extending Margaret Thatcher's liberal reforms into the welfare state. BBC, How will history judge Blair? 10 May 2007.   exhort [ ig-ZAWRT ]   [ verb ]   MEANING :   to warn or advise earnestly; to warn strongly and urgently   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   On several occasions, the invigilator had to exhort the test takers not to cheat.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   On several occasions, Sampson flew to Athens to exhort the Greek military dictatorship to "take action" in Cyprus. The Telegraph, Nicos Sampson, 22 Nov 2001   chaperon [ SHAP-uh'-rohn ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to accompany for the sake of propriety 2. (intr. v.) to act as an escort or guardian in public 3.(n.) an older woman, who, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or to a party of young unmarried men and women for the sake of propriety 4. (n.) an adult present in order to maintain propriety at an activity of young people 5. (n.) a 15th. century round headdress of cloth with streamers hanging down   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She attended the May Queen ball chaperoned by her aunt.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   One of the students' chaperones was Richard Bruno, a beloved Lynn professor who had traveled the world as a doctor for the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service. CNN, The hotel on a hill: In rubble, still a symbol of hope, Wayne Drash,   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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