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	01-Nov-11 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists goad [ gohd ]   [ noun, intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr. v.) to provoke, prod or urge into action 2. (n.) a stimulus or a painful object used to urge   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Shepherds in Scotland use a goad to drive cattle.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Polo gave to the age of exploration that followed the marvels of the East, the strange customs, the fabulous riches, the tribes with gold teeth. It was a Book of Dreams, an incentive, a goad. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time, Travels, by Marco Polo (1298)   ambience [ AM-bee-uh' ns; Fr. ahn*-BYAHN*S ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   atmosphere, feeling or mood associated with a place, person or thing   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The ambience of the restaurant is designed to make it more welcoming and cosy.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A bigger audience, a warmer ambience - Napier University's Sonic Fusion Festival, whatever its earlier shortcomings, ended with a flourish. The Herald, Research Ensemble, Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh, CONRAD WILSON, October 01 2008   feint [ feynt  ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a trick, wile or sham 2. (n.) a feigned blow to take one's opponent off his/her guard 3. (intr.v.) to make a feint 4. (tr.v.) to deceive, distract or lure with a feint 5. (tr.v.) to simulate or pretend   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   A feint to the left, a jab from the right requires good coordination.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   But it was a feint, to distract attention from a helicopter borne landing by a battalion of the US 82nd Airborne Division from Task Force Fury to the north of the town Telegraph, NATO confirms control of Musa Qala, Sarah Radford, 11 December 2007   retrograde [ RE-truh'-greyd ]   [ adjective, intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1.(adj.) reverting to an earlier condition 2. (adj.) opposite or in reverse to the usual order 3. (intr. v.) to degenerate or decline or move to an inferior state   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The doctor advised him to give up his retrograde outlook on life and become more future oriented.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   She added that it would be a "retrograde step" if moves towards greater autonomy for Cornwall now gathered pace. The Telegraph, Cornish street signs to be translated, Richard Savill, 12 November 2009.   tempestuous [ tem-PES-choo-uh's  ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. pertaining to, resembling or characterized by a violent windstorm 2. tumultuous or turbulent   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Fishermen were warned not to venture out to sea as tempestuous weather was expected during the next twenty-four hour period.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Yet Machin, in the course of a tempestuous relationship, is gradually revealed as more sensitive and gentler in his awkward wooing than we might have suspected. BBC, Top 10 film performances: Rachel Roberts, 5 March 2010.   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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