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	22-Mar-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists proscribe [ proh-SKRAHYB ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to prohibit, condemn or banish 2. to announce a person as outlawed   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The thief was found guilty and proscribed to imprisonment for five years.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Why the Bush administration continues to consort with the ISI, when there is probably enough material to proscribe it, is something of a mystery? The Times of India, CIA doesn't see eye-to-eye with ISI, By Chidanand Rajghatta, 11 Oct 2001   fete [ feyt, fet ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a celebrated festival or holiday 2. (n.) a lavish party, celebration or entertainment 3. (tr.v.) to honour, commemorate or entertain by means of a fete   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The fete was attended by people from three counties.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The fete has always been staged at Grimsby's Peaks Lane Fire Station but the grounds have become waterlogged. BBC, Too much water dampens fire fete, 23 July 2007   impediment [ im-ped-uh'-muh'nt ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. an obstruction to progress 2. a defect which prevents clear enunciation   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The general made it clear that all impediments to the peace process had to be dealt with.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Barack is saying that settlements are an impediment and an independent Palestinian state indispensable to peace. Chronicles Magazine, Breaking Bibi, Patrick J. Buchanan, 5 June 2009   plutocracy [ ploo-tok-ruh-see ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy. 2. a government or state in which the wealthy class rules. 3. a class or group ruling, or exercising power or influence, by virtue of its wealth.   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The pheasants called for an uprising against the reigning plutocracy.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The plutocracy presently in charge of these matters must become alert to the needs of all. BBC, Uruguay banks shut all week, 31 July 2002.   diffuse [ v. dih-FYOOZ; adj. dih-FYOOS ]   [ adjective, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to spread by pouring out 2. (tr. v.) to disseminate or scatter widely 3. (intr. v.) to spread 4. (adj.) being very wordy or characterized by discursiveness in speech or writing 5.(adj.) widely spread or scattered   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The farmer diffused the seeds over the field.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It consists of layer upon layer of complicated material - ceramics, metals, fabrics - which diffuse impact. BBC, Euro bailout. Now banking risk morphs into geo-political risk, Paul Mason, 10 May 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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