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	19-Feb-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists platitude [ PLAT-i-tood, -tyood ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a banal or stale comment or remark 2. insipid or dull   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Her platitudes only served to raise his temper.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Hamdan said that he hopes for Obama's promised platitude of change. "I hope he can give us a state," he said. "All the presidents who come just support Israel. It's always Israel, Israel, Israel -- all the time." abc News, Obama or McCain: Israel Debates, By SARA SORCHER, July 2, 2008   educe [ i-DOOS, i-DYOOS ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to elicit, develop, evoke or draw forth 2. to deduce, conclude or infer   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She could educe tears at will.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   These snippets do not include infinite foiled attacks or successful terrorist activity before 1998 and are meant to just educe an imagery of the dance of death that has overtaken delhi. The Times of India, Delhi: The Most Endangered City, 14 Dec 2001   condone [ kuh' n-DOHN ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. excuse, pardon or forgive 2. to over, disregard or approve in a tacit manner   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Society was not about to forget or condone their misdemeanour merely on the basis of adolescents being foolishly impressionable.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It is also insulting to say that the Bishop would condone the persecution of homosexuals. Telegraph, There's no pride in bashing gays, Bishop, George Pitcher, 6 July 2009   harping [ HAHR-ping ]   [ noun, intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a horizontal member at the ends of a boat or ship for holding cant frames in position until the shell planking is fixed 2. (intr. v.) to play on a harp.   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His hobby and favourite pastime was harping.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   His tedious harping upon the past sufferings of the Sudeten Germans is completely irrelevant to the present issue between peace and war. The Telegraph, Mr Chamberlain on his peace mission - Sept 28, 1938, 28 September 2008.   compile [ kuh'm-PAHYL ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to put together in a single book 2. to compose a book using material from various sources 3. to convert a program into machine language   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He compiled a book on the natural resources of the earth.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A very detailed administrative record is compiled, which includes open-source and classified information. CNN, Senators question why group tied to NYC bomb plot not on terror list, Charley Keyes, 12 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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