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	23-Jan-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists invective [ in-VEK-tiv ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a derogatory remark or insult, criticism or denunciation 2. (adj.) abusive, insulting or denunciatory   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The Taliban's invective against India will only succeed in the Hindu hardliners in the Indian political set up being voted to power.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Yahoo! was throwing invectives right back, mocking Mr Icahn's ignorance in matters technical. Economist, Icahn't, Jul 24th 2008, SAN FRANCISCO   artifice [ AHR-tuh-fis ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. wile, stratagem, or a sly trick 2. trickery, cunningness or craftiness 3. ingenuity, skill or inventiveness   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The high school drama was his directional debut, full of artifice and panache.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The world is already full of visual artifice, and we aren't running the International Photography Contest to add to it. National Geographic, A message from the Director of Photography of National Geographic   unencumbered [ uhn-en-KUHM-berd ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. not having cares or responsibilities 2. property that is not subject to the claims of creditors or liens   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Having renounced worldly possessions, he entered the seminary unencumbered.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   There's a world of difference between walking unencumbered and with your worldly possessions on your back. BBC, Round Britain coastal walk, Peter Griffiths, 18 November 2008   decimate [ DES-uh'-meyt ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to destroy a large proportion of 2. to kill every tenth person of a group 3. to cause great damage or destruction to   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The population on the island was decimated by a contagious disease.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Worldwide nuclear fallout would decimate forests and sea life, and the "roar of a wave" is probably the sound of the bomb itself. BBC, Dylan song adopted by climate summit: Your views, 5 December 2009.   placebo [ pluh-see-boh ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a substance which does not have any pharmacological effect but is administered to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a real medicine 2. an item of no intrinsic remedial value that is used to appease or reassure another 3. the name given to the vespers of the Office for the dead   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The study indicated that sixty-five percent of the patients recovered when given a placebo.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The vaccine maker, Nabi Biopharmaceuticals, reported that among those who responded best to NicVAX in earlier testing, 16 percent were able to stop smoking and not start again, compared with 6 percent in the placebo group. CNN, Nicotine vaccine effective in early tests, Val Willingham, 22 April 2010.   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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