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	22-Nov-11 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists foist [ foist ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to insert or introduce fraudulently 2. to pass off something fake as something genuine 3. to impose without proper justification   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The US invaded Iraq in 1993 after the CIA attempted to foist a nuclear proliferation charge against the Saddam Hussein regime.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   When he made it mandatory for all teachers and students of ABE schools to show up on the morning of August 15, a few teachers actually protested the decision with lawyers' notices stating that Independence Day was a public holiday and the board could not foist them with flag hoisting. THE TIMES OF INDIA, Parents, teachers too want a holiday, 15 Aug 2008, Anahita Mukherji,TNN   contingent [ kuh' n-Tin-juh' nt ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) conditional or dependent on something else 2. (adj.) accidental or fortuitous 3. (adj.) empirical or not necessarily true in the logical sense 4. (n.) contingency 5. (n.) a quota of delegates or troops 6. (n.) a delegation or representative group   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His acceptance of the job was dependent on contingent factors such as health and dental insurance.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A large contingent of Northern Ireland riders are bound for the Southern 100 road races in Castletown on the Isle of Man next week. BBC, NI contingent Southern 100 bound, 4 July 2006   foppish [ FOP-ish  ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   dandified, elegant or pertaining to a fop   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was ridiculed for his foppish appearance.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It all reminded me a little of Bradford, but without any of the foppish glamour often associated with my Yorkshire birthplace. Telegraph, The bicycle diaries: impressions of Romania, Douglas Whitehead, 11 May 2009   bleak [ bleek ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1.(adj.) barren or desolate 2. (adj.) dreary or disheartening 3. (n.) small European freshwater fish belonging to the Alburnus genus that has silvery scales which are used to make artificial pearls.   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He tricked the farmers into exchanging their fertile farms for larger plots of bleak land.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The bleak, flat reservation land is particularly valuable to the tribe, one of the poorest communities in the US, because it has been designated as suitable for the development of wind power. The Telegraph, American Indian land sold off by IRS to pay off taxes, Tom Leonard, 4 December 2009.   rebuttal [ ri-BUHT-l ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the act of disproving 2. denial or refutation 3. an opposing argument   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The lawyer produced evidence in rebuttal of the witnesses' statement.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Despite a strongly worded rebuttal of the charges by the Foreign Office in London, Cowley was expelled. The Telegraph, Colonel Noel Cowley, 26 April 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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