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	27-Feb-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists pandemic [ pan-DEM-ik ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) widespread; occurring over or affecting a very large area 2. (n.) a widespread disease or epidemic   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The pandemic nature of the flu is causing people to panic.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   But if the virus mutates and a pandemic occurs, one-third of the U.S. population could become infected and two million people may die, the plan estimates. National Geographic, Bird Flu -- What You Can Do to Be Prepared, Brian Handwerk, May 10, 2006   embryonic [ em-bree-ON-ik ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. pertaining to, or like an embryo 2. undeveloped, incipient or rudimentary   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Embryonic stem cell research is banned in many countries.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Tests on the reprogrammed cell lines showed that they behaved exactly like embryonic stem cells. Telegraph, Breakthrough makes lab-produced stem cells 'safer for humans', By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent, 01 Mar 2009   yokel [ YOH-kuh'l ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a rustic; a country bumpkin   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He dressed like a city slick but behaved like a yokel.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   But the £500,000 investment in Pubserve.com shows that the cider industry is determined to shake off its traditional yokel image. BBC, Cider maker woos China, Ian Jolly, 24 May 2000   insubstantial [ in-suh'b-STAN-shuh'l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. insufficient or lacking in size and quantity 2. weak or flimsy or delicate 3. unreal or lacking form   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   They had to organize another charity performance because of the insubstantial amount collected during the first fundraiser.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The American financiers Endgame Entertainment liked the script and the cast and the director; this, together with the not insubstantial contribution of the BBC, was enough to enable the film to happen. The Telegraph, Nick Hornby on An Education, 23 October 2009.   insidious [ in-SID-ee-uh's ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. intended to beguile or entrap 2. stealthily deceitful or treacherous 3. seeming to operate in an inconspicuous or harmless way but actually with grave effect   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His step brother devised an insidious plan to covet the ancestral property.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Britain has a more insidious "cross to bear" than Germany does over its Nazi history, according to Nick Clegg. The Telegraph, Nick Clegg: Britain bears cross 'bigger than Germany's Nazi past', Jon Swaine, 22 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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