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	21-Feb-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists multifarious [ muhl-tuh'-FAIR-ee-uh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   diverse, varied or versatile   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The building houses many multifarious departments.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   What you will see is a very different kind of British jazz: thoroughly contemporary, bewilderingly multifarious, and on the face of it lacking any defining markers of Britishness. Telegraph, Was William Blake really the first star of British jazz?, 09/11/2006   febrile [ FEE-brahyl, FEE-bruh' l, FEB-ruh' l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. feverish or pertaining to, caused by or marked by fever 2. hysterical or delirious   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His febrile state was the cause of great concern.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The political atmosphere in America in October 2008 is febrile and confused. BBC, US debate could be turning point, By Adam Brookes, 2 October 2008   journeyman [ JUR-nee-muh' n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a worker who has served an apprenticeship in a particular trade and, hence, is qualified to work under another 2. a competent yet undistinguished performer or craftsman   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The company needed a journeyman to craft and design imitation jewellery.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Sources created an impression of a capable and trusted manager but one who was more of a diligent journeyman than a dynamic business genius. BBC, Gerbeau: Genius or journeyman? 21 February 2001   implicate [ IM-pli-keyt ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to involve or show to be involved intimately or incriminatingly 2. something that is understood 3. to affect as a consequence or to imply as a necessary circumstance   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   They could not implicate him in the robbery because he had an ironclad alibi.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He also claimed to have documents in his possession that could implicate some PSL club officials. BBC, Match-fixing row hits South Africa, Piers Edwards, 25 November 2009.   maxim [ MAK-sim ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a saying or an expression of a general truth 2. a fundamental principle or rule of conduct   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The philosopher said that if one lived one's life according to certain maxims, there would be no scope for entertaining evil.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Maybe it was proof of the maxim that a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth. The Telegraph, General Election 2010: world newspapers react to Gordon Brown's 'bigot' gaffe, 29 April 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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