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	27-Oct-11 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists cathartic [ kuh'-THAHR-tik ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) something that pertains to or induces catharsis 2. (n.) a purgative or laxative   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The laxative proved to be very cathartic.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Music can unlock emotional problems. It is particularly helpful with grief where people can find music very cathartic. BBC, 'My music helps healing', 29 December, 2002   abstract [ AB-strakt, ab-STRAKT ]   [ noun, adjective, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) considered apart from concrete realities, specific objects or actual instances 2. (adj.) depending solely on intrinsic form rather than on narrative content or pictorial representation 3. (n.) a statement summarizing the important points of a text, scientific article, document, speech etc 4. (tr.v.) to take away or remove without permission   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Abstract art is often misunderstood as it falls beyond the norms of traditional art.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   These include famous portraits of Byron, Mary Queen of Scots and Winston Churchill alongside unfamiliar landscapes, abstract works and specially commissioned pieces. Telegraph, BBC to put all 200,000 publicly owned paintings online, By Urmee Khan, Digital and Media Correspondent, 28 Jan 2009   grave [ greyv  ]   [ noun, adjective, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a hole dug in the ground to bury the dead 2. (n.) a tomb 3. (adj.) serious 4. (adj.) dangerous 5. (tr.v.) to engrave or carve   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His last request was to be buried in an unmarked grave.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   At the time, the Boston, Massachusetts-based group Physicians for Human Rights said it found a mass grave in nearby Dasht-e Leili, where witnesses said the bodies of Taliban prisoners were buried. CNN, Obama orders review of alleged slayings of Taliban in Bush era, 13 July 2009, 18 July 2009   adjutant [ AJ-uh'-tuh'nt  ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the staff officer who aids the commanding officer in the issuing of orders 2. an aide or assistant 3. a stork also called adjutant bird or adjutant stork   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He claimed to be the adjutant of the base and boasted that no orders were issued unless they passed through him.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   British defense ministry issued a statement through British Brigadier Martin Rutledge, chief of staff of the adjutant general, in which he described the images as "extremely disturbing." CNN, Arrest after UK Iraq abuse claims, 13 February 2006.   incarcerate [ v. in-KAHR-suh-reyt; adj. in-KAHR-ser-it, -suh-reyt  ]   [ adjective, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to jail or imprison 2. (tr. v.) to enclose or confine 3. (adj.) imprisoned   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The accused was incarcerated as the Judge had denied him bail.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Ten thousand prisoners are to be released, posing questions about why they were incarcerated. The Telegraph, Tajik president announces amnesty for half his prison population, Rachel Cooper, 6 November 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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