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	28-Mar-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists restive [ RES-tiv ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. unruly, uneasy or impatient 2. balky or refusing to budge   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The restive class gave the teacher a headache.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   However, journalists will still not be allowed to travel to the restive region of Tibet and other restricted areas without getting special permission from local authorities, Liu said. abcNews, China Eases Restrictions for Foreign Journalists, By TINI TRAN, October 17, 2008   galvanize [ GAL-vuh'-nahyz ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to stimulate or spur by applying electric current 2. (tr.v.) to excite, stimulate or startle 3. (intr.v.) to react in a manner as though stimulated by means of electrics shocks   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The people were galvanized into action on hearing the speech   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Meyer also held up a length of heavy, galvanized metal chain she said circus handlers employ to restrain the elephants. CNN, Judge hears case alleging circus elephant abuse, By Paul Courson, February 4, 2009   heresy [ her-uh'-see ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   opinion or doctrine at variance with the orthodox or accepted doctrine of a religious system.   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was arrested for propagating heresy which was a crime in the Victorian Era.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It astonished his imagination but repelled and frightened him with its tempting heresy of Manichaean dualism – the idea that a creator might be evil. The Telegraph, When the naked green lady sings, Christopher Howse, 27 June 2009   protuberance [ proh-TOO-ber-uh'ns ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a projection 2. the condition or state of extending 3. the part that sticks out   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   They nicknamed him hunchback because of the protuberance at the back of his left shoulder.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Most dangerously, a massive German counter-attack through the Ardennes forest in December 1944 led to 'the battle of the Bulge', so called because of the protuberance it caused in the Allied line, which threatened to drive a wedge between the British and American armies, and possibly even allow the Wehrmacht to recapture Antwerp. The Telegraph, Britain at War: Victory - VE Day and VJ Day, 3 December 2008.   carcinogenic [ kahr-suh'-nuh'-JEN-ik ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. any substance that tends to cause or produce cancer 2. a cancerous agent   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The government banned the use of DDT as a pesticide after tests proved that it had carcinogenic properties.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Packs of the product, brought to the UK from China, have had a new English label put on to hide the original label which contained the Chinese symbols for Aristolochia, a banned toxic and carcinogenic plant derivative. The Telegraph, Recalled Chinese medicine still on sale, 30 March 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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