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	02-Jan-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists minatory [ MIN-uh'-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   threatening, alarming or ominous   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The minatory way in which the young men approached the elderly man signalled their intentions.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   These sound minatory, but as Japan's population starts to decline due to the low birth-rate, and its number of elderly swell, robots are seen as a solution. Economist, Domo arigato, Mr Roboto, Dec 12th 2007   animus [ AN-uh'-muh' s ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. hatred, enmity or animosity 2. intention, disposition, animating spirit or purpose 3. (as per psychology of G.C. Jung) the masculine component that is present in a female's personality   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The animus seen throughout the novel between the major characters is nerve-racking.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A personal animus between Putin and Saakashvili is believed to have contributed to increasing tension that erupted into war between Russia and Georgia in August. abcNEWS, Putin Makes Crude Outburst About Georgian Leader, December 4, 2008   jacquerie [ zhahk-uh'-REE ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the revolt of the peasants of france against the french nobility in 1358 2. a revolt of any peasant   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The nobles scoffed at the jacquerie by the peasants.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   These two elements, mass conscription and the methods needed to command such large armies pioneered by Napoleon – however imperfectly by the end - together with the state machinery needed to harness recalcitrant rural populations, were the most salient contributions of the period to the future of warfare, together with the guerrilla resistance that mass conscription did so much to provoke, sustain, and transform from crude peasant jacquerie into something more menacing, until it, too succumbed to newer, unforeseen advances in technology. University of Oxford, CHANGES IN WAR: The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1 May 2009   anthropologist [ an-thruh'-POL-uh'-jist ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a person who specializes in the scientific study of the development of humans, like origin, physical, social and cultural aspects   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The child stated that he would like to be an anthropologist when he grew up.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It was after hearing about that uproar that American anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, decided to release the tape of the interview she conducted with Hiss in 2000, Israel's Channel 2 reported. CNN, Israel harvested organs without permission, officials say, 21 December 2009.   strew [ stroo ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to scatter 2. (tr. v.) to spread over a wide area   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Their back yard was strewed with garbage as they were lazy and did not want to clean it up.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Cars clog the roads and obstacles strew the pavements and every time the authorities construct a drop kerb for wheelchairs or textured paving for blind people somebody comes along and parks on it. BBC, You and Yours - Transcript, 26 April 2004.   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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