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	20-Feb-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists panache [ puh'-NASH, -NAHSH ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. flair, style or flamboyance 2. a tuft or plume of tassels or feathers esp. on a cap or helmet a pendentive's surface (in architecture)   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The count had panache which attracted people from different walks of life.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A disc containing CIA material, Malkovich's character is using to write his memoirs, falls into the hands of Pitt and McDormand who set out to blackmail him with all the panache of the Keystone Kops. abc News, Pitt, Clooney Dumb Down for Coens' `Burn', By DAVID GERMAIN AP Movie Writer, September 9, 2008   faux pas [ foh PAH ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   blunder, misconduct, social mistake, false step or error in etiquette   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Debutantes were warned about the various faux pas and how to avoid them.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In this tradition-bound society, the contractor had just committed a major cultural faux pas. National Geographic, Bin Laden Hunt Hurt by U.S. Disrespect of Afghans, Experts Say, Stefan Lovgren, March 30, 2004   kleptomania [ klep-tuh'-MEY-nee-uh', -MEYN-yuh' ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a persistent and irresistible impulse or urge to steal regardless of any kind of economic need   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The psychiatrist was convinced that the teenager suffered from kleptomania when she could not provide any reason for stealing.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Although many consumers find the rush and crowds of holiday shopping intimidating, kleptomaniacs have to cope with the stress of the holiday season coupled with their urge to shoplift. CNN, Kleptomaniacs cope with stress of holiday shopping, Joan MacFarlane, 4 December 1997   rampart [ RAM-pahrt ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) an embankment capped with a stone parapet raised as a fortification around a place 2. (adj.) an effective bulwark or defence 3. (tr. v.) to defend with a fortified embankment   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The villagers built ramparts around the village as a defence against invaders.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Intoxicated by the romance of a fairy-tale castle, they ran amok along the ramparts of Fort Qaitbey. The Telegraph, Alexandria, Egypt: in praise of Alex, Teresa Levonian Cole, 29 November 2009.   blasphemy [ BLAS-fuh'-mee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. impious action or utterance concerning sacred things or God 2. irreverent behaviour toward anything that is held sacred or the act of cursing God 3. assuming to possess the qualities of God   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   They accused him of blasphemy and wanted to stone him to death.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Blasphemy is defined as 'contempt or indignity offered to God': hate speech is usually directed towards human beings. The Telegraph, Blasphemy laws are lifted, Martin Beckford, 10 May 2008.   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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