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	05-Feb-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists kismet [ KIZ-mit, -met, KIS- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   fate, luck or destiny   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Despite being well educated, he remained unemployed for a long time proving that getting a good job was not in his kismet.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The enchanting sound of the kora (African harp) played by Jali Fily Cissokho and the Eastern European tunes of Kismet could be heard in the Pitt Rivers, further enhancing the experience of exploring the ground floor collections by torchlight. University of Oxford, Late night event at Oxford museums, 19 May 08   bogus [ BOH-guh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) spurious, counterfeit, fake or forged   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Bogus products are often sold at half the price of their original counterparts in these bazaars.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Wasteful public spending subsidises an army of bogus welfare claimants. Economist, Looking nice but doing nothing, Jun 19th 2008   killjoy [ KIL-joi ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a spoilsport, a wet blanket, one ruining the pleasure or enthusiasm of others   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Our elderly neighbour is a regular killjoy always complaining about the loud music that we enjoy.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Obama needs to strike a balance between fashioning himself an advocate of clean living and coming across as a public scold or a killjoy. Washington Post, Media Notes, Howard Kurtz, 11 June 2009   deputize [ DEP-yuh'-tahyz ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to appoint as a deputy or to empowered to act for another 2. (intr. v.) to act as a deputy   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Before proceeding on leave, the general manager deputized the most sincere, hard working and efficient executive to keep things going until his return.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Grand Cayman is polite and god fearing but even so the threat of looting was present in George Town and on once occasion Haines – a splendidly laconic former Leicester Tiger who used to serve with Dean Richards and John Wells in the Police and play with the Peter Wheeler generation - brandished a gun and "deputized" his University student son on the spot to ward off those up to no good. Telegraph, Hurricane Ivan fails to destroy Caymans rugby, Brendan Gallagher, 21 Apr 2008   insubordination [ in-suh'-BAWR-dn-ay-shuh'n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. defiance or the act of challenging authority or of not submitting to authority 2. the instance of being disobedient   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Several unruly employees were dismissed for insubordination.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   She was, however, sacked for insubordination after she told a senior officer he was incompetent, and in 1945 went to work as a briefing and dispatching officer in North Africa. The Telegraph, Baroness Park of Monmouth, 25 March 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. Principe
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