TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 28-Dec-11

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	28-Dec-11 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists mawkish [ MAW-kish ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. sentimental, emotional or mushy 2. having an insipid or nauseating taste   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The writer's mawkish novel about an orphan boy met with a tepid response.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Friendship is like a China cup, precious rich and rare, once broken can be mended, but the crack is always there goes a piece of maudlin prose that has found its way into many autograph books. Mawkish, but no less true for that. THE TIMES OF INDIA, Circle of friends, 26 Aug 2007   bereft [ bi-REFT ]   [ adjective, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) deprived of, lacking, devoid of or robbed of something 2. (adj.) bereaved 3. (tr.v.) past participle and past tense of bereave   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His character is the book was depicted to be bereft of all happiness.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It is a pointless gesture and suggests, somewhat worryingly, that the Government is bereft of ideas. Telegraph, Government must act to prevent deeper recession, 08 Jan 2009   corroboration [ kuh'-rob-uh'-REY-shuh' n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. confirmation, verification or ratification 2. a statement or act that is corroboratory   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   After the corroboration of all the facts presented by the district attorney the jury was convinced that the accused was in fact guilty as charged.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Prosecutors dropped charges against Kenny Richey - who returned home to Scotland last January after being freed by a court in Ohio - because of a lack of corroboration. Telegraph, Death row Kenny Richey cleared of assault, Auslan Cramb, 5 March 2009   ecologist [ i-KOL-uh'-jist ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. One who studies the scientific relationships between organisms and their environments 2. a person who studies relationships between human groups and their physical and social environments   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   People seem to take the estimates of ecologists about global warming rather lightly.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Take away the sea ice and you lose the bears,' says Andrew Derocher, an ecologist from the University of Alberta who specialises in polar bear population research. The Telegraph, A new home for Britain's last polar bear, 17 December 2009.   teetotalism [ tee-TOHT-l-iz-uh'm ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the principle of total abstinence from alcoholic drinks 2. the practice of avoiding intoxicating drinks   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He believed that teetotalism was good for the health and well-being of the individual.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   We might have had to scrimp a bit on the boys' presents but I'm darned if the economic gloom is going to drive me and the missus into teetotalism. The Telegraph, Last minute Christmas wines, Jonathan Ray, 17 December 2008.   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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