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	31-Jan-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists overweening [ OH-ver-WEE-ning ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. brash, arrogant or conceited excessive or overbearing   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His brash, overweening manner was repugnant to all.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Despite its overweening ambition to re-write the rule book governing how multi-part TV crime yarns unfold, Mobile's first episode succeeded in being as attention-grabbing as it was implausible; as entertainingly complex as it was, from time to time, annoyingly daft. The Herald, Mixed-up messages on the mobey, DAVID BELCHER, March 26 2007   apparition [ ap-uh'-RISH-uh' n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a spectre, wraith, phantom or supernatural appearance 2. a manifestation or sudden appearance 3. an unusual appearance or sight   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The ghostly apparition appeared only at midnight.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The faithful insist that miracles really do happen in the French mountains of Lourdes on the spot where, 150 years ago, a local girl called Bernadette said she saw an apparition in a cave. abcNEWS, Miracle in the Mountains, by NICK WATT, June 24, 2008   kickshaw [ KIK-shaw ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a tidbit or delicacy 2. a trifle, gewgaw or trinket   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   We were offered a simple meal without any kickshaw.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Well I hope it doesn't sound condescending to say that the kickshaw I've selected will, for the moment anyway, be of more concern to one half of the American population than the Trade Bill with China or Washington's prohibition of Cuban cigars. BBC, The China bill and other kickshaws, 15 May 2000   malady [ MAL-uh'-dee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a disease or a disorder or an ailment 2. an unhealthy or undesirable condition   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His was a malady of the mind which did not respond to conventional medication.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Aspiring public office holders ought to have a psychiatric evaluation as no other malady but madness can aptly describe this flagrantly insatiable appetite for materialism that drives a man to keep amassing the national wealth of the people which he holds in trust for them. BBC, African view: Insane with greed, 14 October 2009.   compelling [ kuhm-PEL-ing ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. overpowering or tending to force an issue 2. having or bringing about a powerful and irresistible effect   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Some of the students had a compelling desire to play a practical joke on the new teacher.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Whatever the inevitable gaps in the plan, it represents a far more comprehensive and compelling vision of a changed society than Mr Brown's big state. The Telegraph, General Election 2010 as it happened: May 5, 6 May 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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