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	07-Feb-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists pacifist [ PAS-uh'-fist ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. one who refrains from war and violence 2. one who refrains from joining military service because of his belief in pacifism   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   It is probable that Pakistan thinks India's pacifist reactions to the Mumbai terror attacks to be a sign of cowardliness.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The German Green Party has averted a crisis by voting against a pacifist move from its ranks to demand a permanent ceasefire in Yugoslavia. BBC, World: Europe Greens back leader over Nato, May 13, 1999   disinter [ dis-in-TUR ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to unearth, exhume or extract from a tomb or grave 2. to disclose, bring to light or bring into prominence or perspective   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His human remains being disinterred were considered sacrilegious.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He has gone to the Court of Session in Edinburgh to seek authority to disinter the remains of Margaret Black and Peter Butler. BBC, Court action over grave 'error', 14 July, 2000   utopia [ yoo-TOH-pee-uh' ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   an ideally perfect place especially in its social, political and moral aspects.   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He promised the people a utopia if they elected him to power.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The traitor class wants them to share its death wish, to self-annihilate as people with a historical memory and a cultural identity, and to make room for the post-human, monistic Utopia spearheaded by the jihadist fifth column. Chronicles Magazine, Defending the West in Vienna, Srdja Trifkovic, 3 June 2008   catharsis [ kuh'-THAHR-sis ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. an experience of emotional release and purification or a figurative cleansing of the emotions 2. the cleansing of the digestive system by evacuation of the bowels 3. the technique of relieving tension and anxiety by bringing repressed feelings and fears to consciousness   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He decide to vent his feelings in a form of catharsis.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   But the hearings have left many wondering whether there can be catharsis for the country and whether reconciliation can be achieved? BBC, Africa select August 08, 27 August 2008.   discompose [ dis-kuh'm-POHZ ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to perturb or disturb the piece of mind of 2. to disturb someone's self-possession 3. to unsettle or disturb the order of   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   They discomposed the candidate during his election speech by making derogatory remarks.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The proposal to try them in military courts has discomposed the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith. The Telegraph, British suspects are still British subjects, 26 June 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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