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	01-Feb-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists mores [ MAWR-eyz, -eez, MOHR- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. socially accepted customs and traditions 2. attitudes, ways or manners   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The social mores prevalent in the villages still forbid inter-caste marriages.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   With the print run nearing half a million, it is time for Chronicles to refocus on "American culture" in the proper sense of die Kultur, the sum of the life of a community and its mores. Chronicles magzine, It's 2028, and All Is Well: The Diary of an Aging Counterrevolutionary, by Srdja Trifkovic   appellation [ ap-uh'-LEY-shuh' n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. title, name, designation or an identifier 2. an instance or act of naming   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The appellation was befitting his rank.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Up to one-third of wines marketed under France's regional "appellation" system do not deserve the label, a leading French consumer group says. BBC, Doubt over quality of French wine,5 September 2007   jeopardy [ JEP-er-dee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. peril, danger or exposure to injury or death 2. (Law.) a defendant's risk of conviction when he's put on trial   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The brave lad put his life in jeopardy to save his friend from drowning in the river.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Ministers have been urged to change the law on double jeopardy so a person can be retried for a crime of which they have already been cleared. BBC, MSPs debate double jeopardy rule, 22 February 2007   aureole [ AWR-ee-ohl ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the radiance surrounding the figure in the representation of a sacred personage 2. a halo or ring of light 3. corona or a white or coloured circle or set of concentric circles of light around a luminous body   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The apparition was enshrouded in an aureole.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Stars pulsating with aureoles of white, green or blue scroll from left to right across the canvas, balls of light that move as though on the swell of ocean waves towards the crescent moon in its halo of yellow at the right. The Telegraph, Van Gogh and the Colours of the Night, review, Richard Dorment, 9 February 2009.   ventral [ VEN-truh'l ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) pertaining to the abdomen or belly 2. (adj.) situated on or near the lower, abdominal plane of the body 3. (n.) the abdominal segment of an insect   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The patient was unable to pin-point the exact location but indicated that the pain emanated from the ventral side of his body.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Brain scans revealed a structure called the ventral striatum responded to subliminal cues ""in a manner that closely approximates our computational algorithm, expressing reward expected values,"" says Dr Pessiglione. The Telegraph, Why you should trust your instincts, Roger Highfield, 27 August 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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