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	09-Nov-11 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists filial [ FIL-ee-uh' l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. pertaining to a child or offspring 2. pertaining to a series of generations succeeding the parental generation   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Most people in our country still maintain a sense of filial piety.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A good helping of poison, duels, betrayal, filial ruptures and spirits in the night was served up by this youthful cast, who being largely past or present students should be well versed in such things. BBC, SHOESTRING, by BBC South Yorkshire contributor Rory Dollard, November 2002   accomplice [ uh'-KOM-plis ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a person who knowingly helps another in wrongdoing, either as a principal or an accessory   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   An accomplice who is an accessory to murder often receives a lesser sentence than the main accused.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In 1829, George Wilson and an accomplice received death sentences for murder and robbing mail trains. CNN, 11 notable presidential pardons, By Ethan Trex, January 5, 2009   equivocate [ i-KWIV-uh'-keyt  ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to deceive or mislead by using equivocal or obscure terms or language 2. to deliberately be non-committal or avoid stating explicitly   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He equivocated readers by using technical jargon in his articles.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Their most prominent leaders, including the Muslim Council of Britain, which claims to be their main umbrella organisation, equivocate about the requirements of being British. Telegraph, Flying the flag is only the first step to victory, Charles Moore, 7 July 2009   proselytize [ PROS-uh'-li-tahyz ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) To force a person to change his religion or belief 2. (intr. v.) to induce a person to convert to one's own religion 3. (intr. v.) to induce a person to convert to one's own political party   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Investigators were sent to find out if the villagers who became converts were proselytized.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Authorities have received more than 50 complaints from students who felt they were being inappropriately proselytised. BBC, 'Religious bullying' at US academy, Matthew Wells, 17 June 2005.   illimitable [ ih-LIM-i-tuh'-buh'l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. limitless or having no limit 2. boundless 3. infinite not able to be contained within a limit   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was disqualified as his illimitable stamina came from the performance enhancement drugs.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   "The great question now at issue," Malthus asked more than 200 years ago, "is whether man shall henceforth start forwards with accelerated velocity towards illimitable, and hitherto un-conceived improvement, or be condemned to a perpetual oscillation between happiness and misery." The Telegraph, Worry about bread, not oil, Niall Ferguson, 29 July 2007.   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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