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	17-Mar-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists propitiate [ pruh'-PISH-ee-eyt ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to reconcile, appease, pacify or mollify   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   A treaty ensured that the warring sides propitiated and peace ensued.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   To suggest audibly that officials should give the benefit of any doubt to Budge in order to propitiate the demonstrative crowd was not calculated to bring favour, though, being familiar with champions who talk to themselves on the court, I did not share their indignation. Telegraph, Fred Perry sets up American record, By A. Wallis Myers, 08 Sep 2008   apropos [ ap-ruh'-POH ]   [ adjective, adverb ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) apt, appropriate, opportune or relevant 2. (adv.) opportunely, seasonably or at the appropriate or right time 3. (adv.) incidentally or by the way   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The coup must be timed at the apropos juncture.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   I saw one where the D had been painted over and the message seemed more apropos. abcNews, Heat, Flat Tires and Bullets in Iraq, By MIKE TUGGLE, June 28, 2006   harrow [ har-oh ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a tool used in farming to loosen and level soil 2. (tr.v.) to turn over the soil using a harrow 3. (tr.v.)to cause torment to   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   A harrow is an important tool during the harvesting season.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The harrow, the comb of my field, must be fitted with large teeth to harrow the holy field. University of Oxford, The song of the ploughing oxen: translation, 30 November 2006   sheathe [ sheeth ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to put into or provide with a casing 2. to enclose in a casing or protective covering 3. to cover or provide with a protective covering   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   After the battle the surviving soldiers would sheathe their swords and return to their respective camps.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Two screeches of metal as two swords were sheathed. BBC, Daisho, Joseph Mallon, 16 July, 2007   interpolate [ in-TUR-puh'-leyt ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to interpose or introduce an additional or extraneous item between other things or parts 2. (tr. v.) interject 3. (tr. v.) to find an intermediate term in a sequence 4. (intr. v.) to make such an insertion or addition   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The seedy lawyer interpolated words and phrases in the transcript of the witnesses' statement to mislead the prosecutor.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Here he updates this great musical set among the Wild West shows of late 19th century America to the Fifties, though he sometimes slips back to the Forties so he can show an interpolated black and white film clip of the sharp-shooter Annie Oakley receiving a medal from Hitler during a world tour. The Telegraph, Annie Get Your Gun at the Young Vic, review, Charles Spencer, 19 October 2009.   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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