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	28-Feb-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists plebeian [ pli-BEE-uh' n ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) pertaining to or of common people (especially in Rome) 2. (adj.) vulgar or coarse 3. (n.) one belonging to the lower class or common people especially in ancient Rome 4. (n.) one who is coarse or vulgar   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His plebeian manners elicited scorn.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In the two final tables, the provision was added to forbid intermarriage between patricians and plebeians. Chronicles magzine, Uncle Sam's Harem II, by Thomas Fleming   exigency [ Ek-si-juh' n-see, ig-Zij-uh' n- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. urgency or an exigent state, condition or quality 2. a need or requirement in a particular situation 3. an emergency, crisis or urgent situation   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The exigency of the situation requires a contingency plan to be in place.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It said they could "help pupils, especially those under particular pressures, relax and cope with the exigencies of their reality". BBC, Quiet revolution plan for school stress, 25 June, 2002   yuletide [ YOOL-tahyd ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) the Christmas season 2. (adj.) of or relating to the Christmas season   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Yuletide is a festive season celebrated in most countries around the world.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   However else Europeans celebrate the Yuletide season, Christmas still centers around an Advent market that, in most cases, has filled the square before the cathedral each December for hundreds upon hundreds of years. CNN, European Christmas markets rich with history, Reid Bramblett, 1 December 2008   pugnacity [ puhg-NAS-i-tee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a tendency to be hostile 2. aggressiveness   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was the quiet and unassuming type, but when cornered by the bully he reacted with pugnacity.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   There was a widespread expectation that after two horrible days for the Government, he would find this his most embarrassing Prime Minister's Questions yet, but Mr Brown instead seized the chance to show steadiness and pugnacity under fire. The Telegraph, Pugnacious Gordon Brown piles into attackers, Andrew Gimson, 22 November 2007.   imbecility [ im-buh'-SIL-i-tee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. stupidity or silliness 2. an instance of absurdity or incapability 3. foolishness   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The staff at the shopping arcade complained about the imbecility of the new manager to the directors.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   But opposition MP Massimo Donadi, of the Italy of Values party, said it was Mr Berlusconi who was guilty of imbecility. The Telegraph, Barack Obama 'tanned' comment was compliment, says Silvio Berlusconi, Nick Squires, 7 November 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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