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	05-Jan-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists inane [ i-NEYN ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. vacant, insubstantial or empty 2. silly, stupid or foolish   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The journalist's inane questions irritated the visiting Head of state.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Although Australian Wayne Grady has never been one of my favourite sports commentators, the former golf pro sank even lower in my esteem with his inane remark about the heavy Scots accent of Bob Torrance, who coaches Open champion Padraig Harrington. The Herald, Grady should kept his antipodean antics quiet   cadaverous [ kuh-DAV-er-uh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. corpselike, haggard, ghastly or gaunt 2. pallid or livid   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The sighting of the cadaverous form managed to scare off everyone in the castle   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Today's forests stand in cadaverous contrast. abcNEWS, Ecologists Yielding to Nature's Fire Logic, by Joseph Verrengia, Aug. 18   jade [  jeyd ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a green-coloured, hard gemstone or its green colour 2. (n.) a woman of ill repute 3. (n.) a horse that's worn-out 4. (tr.v.) to wear out or cause to make something worn-out   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The statue was an antique carved from the finest jade.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Others came out of prison so jaded and changed that it ruined marriages and relationships. CNN, DNA cleared them, but they'll never feel free, Ed Lavandera, 19 May 2008   bristling [ BRIS-uh'ling ]   [ verb ]   MEANING :   1. to become erect or stiff like bristles 2. to be aroused 3. to become irritated   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was bristling with rage after the manager of the department store refused to acknowledge his complaint.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In a move that belied the insecurity of China's rulers, the general public were ordered to stay at home and watch the goose-stepping ranks of soldiers and the bristling array of tanks, unmanned drones and ballistic missiles on their televisions. The Telegraph, China review of 2009, 15 December 2009.   palimpsest [ PAL-imp-sest ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a parchment from which writing has been partially erased to make room for some other text leaving the earlier writing sometimes legible 2. parchment from which earlier writing has been removed to clear it for new writing 3. an object, place, or locality that reflects its history   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   It was only after they realized that the treasure map happened to be on a palimpsest that they were able to make some headway in deciphering the script.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   So for all its profound originality, this one painting is like a palimpsest where we can look through Cezanne to the Italian Renaissance and beyond to the classical world. The Telegraph, Picasso: Challenging the Past at the National Gallery, review, Richard Dorment, 23 February 2009.   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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