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	14-Mar-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists portly [ PAWRT-lee, POHRT- ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. stout, fat or chubby 2. distinguished, stately or imposing   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The portly gentleman was seen walking around the garden.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A slightly portly friend of mine with road rage recently got stuck in her sunroof trying to climb out of her car in order to hit someone with her shoe. CNN, Driving-while-grooming among pet peeves, By Jon Gromer, December 4, 2007   extrude [ ik-STROOD ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to expel, force, thrust or push out 2. (tr.v.) to shape or form by forcing through a die 3. (intr.v.) to project, protrude or be extruded   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The rocket was extruded into space and the loud bang accompanying it was heard for miles.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Generally, spiders will extrude a silk from abdominal structures known as spinnerets. BBC, Sticky feet help tarantulas climb, 28 September 2006   zenith [ ZEN-ith; ZEE-nith ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the point on the celestial sphere that is directly above the observer 2. the point of culmination; the peak   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   While he boasted of having reached the zenith of his career someone remarked that now the poor guy had nowhere to go but down.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Unsurprisingly, anti-nuclear protests reached their zenith during the decade. CNN, Fueling the future, Matthew Knight, 25 April 2008   betroth [ bi-TROHTH, -TRAWTH  ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to promise to give in marriage 2. (tr. v.) to promise to marry 3. (tr. v.) to arrange for the marriage of   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was happy to be betrothed to the only daughter of a rich industrialist.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Cultured, charming Italian Captain, more dove than hawk, who carries a torch for the already-betrothed Pelagia, resident of an occupied Greek island. The Telegraph, Romantic heroes: here's to you, Mr Rochester, Penny Vincenzi, 15 October 2009.   metaphysical [ met-uh'-FIZ-i-kuh'l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. pertaining to philosophy and its more abstruse branches 2. being concerned with ultimate grounds and first principles 3. being based on theory or speculative reasoning 4. supernatural   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His ideas emanated from a metaphysical thought process which was beyond the comprehension of the common man.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The metaphysical change... is a horrifying experience - an experience in which he relives some of the most unendurable moments of his long life, including the galactic war. BBC, Doctor Who regeneration was 'modelled on LSD trips', 12 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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