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	30-Dec-11 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists perdition [ per-DISH-uh' n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. destruction, damnation or ruin 2. hell   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Not learning from history will seal our perdition.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In it, he saw a train carrying innumerable people to perdition, and its meaning was unveiled to him as representing the Nazis," it says. abc News, Catholic Church Beatifies WWII Objector, Catholic Church Beatifies WWII Objector, October 26, 2007   badger [ BAJ-er ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a burrowing mammal like a bandicoot or its fur 2. (tr.v.) to pester, urge or nag someone   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His face resembled that of a badger.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The American badger is one of the prairie dog's toughest enemies. National Geographic, American badgers.   unwonted [ uhn-WAWN-tid,-WOHN-,-WUHN- ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. not customary or habitual 2. not accustomed; unused   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The strictest teacher started treating the students with unwonted kindness because an official visit from the faculty inspector was due.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   And there is a consensus in Beijing that the momentum is on their side -- and a display of unwonted leniency may only encourage the 'splittists' to make more mischief against central authorities. CNN, Hu's vision for China, Willy Wo-Lap Lam, 30 April 2002   evenhanded [ EE-vuh'n-HAN-did ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. displaying impartiality 2. equitable or fair treatment to all   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Nobody could fault the evenhanded decision of the umpire.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It was Obama at his preternaturally evenhanded best, though at 55 minutes, he had ample time to please more than one audience. The Telegraph, Cairo speech: Obama as a one-man United Nations, Alex Spillius, 4 July 2009.   culinary [ KYOO-luh'-ner-ee ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. pertaining to the kitchen or used in cooking 2. pertaining to cookery   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Her culinary expertise covered a wide variety of mouth-watering delicacies.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   That's why Egeria di Nallo, a professor of Sociology at the University of Bologna decided to set up HomeFood, an organization aimed at preserving Italy's culinary heritage. BBC, Preserving Italy's culinary heritage, 31 October 2005.   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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