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	20-Dec-11 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists pejorative [ pi-JAWR-uh'-tiv, -JOR-, PEJ-uh'-rey-, PEE-juh'- ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) derogatory, insulting or belittling 2. (adj.) worsening or declining 3. (n.) an expression or word that is pejorative or derogatory in nature   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Their pejorative words led the poor man committing suicide.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   When governments are described as pursuing populist policies the adjective is often intended to be pejorative. The Herald, A punishing schedule, August 23 2007   alchemy [ AL-kuh'-mee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy having as its aims, transmuting baser metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease and an elixir of longevity 2. any magical power or process by which a common substance can be transmuted into a substance of great value   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The art of alchemy was subtle and often misunderstood.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Obama was elected as a visionary, presenting voters with a somewhat mysterious but winning alchemy of youth, fresh ideas, modernity and the promise of a new era. abcNews, Analysis: Team Obama Preoccupied With Bush   untoward [ uhn-TAWRD, -TOHRD ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. unfavourable 2. out of the ordinary   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He leads a charmed life, nothing untoward ever happens to him.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In the early hours of September 5, 1972, there would have seemed nothing immediately untoward about the sight of nine men, wearing tracksuits and carrying sports bags emblazoned with the Olympic rings, demonstrating their athletic prowess by scaling the walls around the athletes' compound. CNN, Olympic memories, 19 August 2008   catapult [ KAT-uh'-puhlt ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a slingshot 2. a mechanism used in medieval times to propel large stones or spears 3. a machine for launching aircraft at a speed sufficient for flight   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   They hunted quail with their catapults.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Officers can arrest a person if they are carrying a catapult around with them in public. BBC, Arrests over catapult attacks, 10 March 2009.   manumit [ man-yuh'-MIT ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to emancipate or release from bondage 2. to free from servitude 3. to free from slavery   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The southerners said that they could not manumit their slaves as they were needed to pluck cotton in the fields.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   While a trusted bailiff might be manumitted as a gesture of gratitude, for those working as agricultural labourers or in workshops there was little likelihood of being so noticed. Wikipedia, Manumission is the act of freeing slaves, done at the will of the owner.   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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