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	01-May-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists sequester [ si-KWES-ter ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to separate or segregate 2. (tr.v.) to withdraw or remove 3. (law) to confiscate or take possession of temporarily 4. (intr.v.) to undergo separation or sequestration   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She was sequestered from her friends as a part of her punishment.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The country is not awash with petrodollars because the state taxes its energy earnings heavily, and sequesters its dollar takings in its central-bank reserves and its Stabilisation Fund. The Economist, A taxonomy of trouble, Oct 23rd 2008   ichthyology [ ik-thee-OL-uh'-jee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a branch of zoology that is concerned with the study of fishes   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was an avid reader in the field of ichthyology.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Monod finally returned to Paris in 1965, to take up a chair of African Ichthyology at the Museum d'histoire naturelle. Telegraph, Theodore Monod, 23 Aug 2001   vanquish [ VANG-kwish ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to conquer or overcome in battle 2. to defeat in a conquest, competition or conflict 3. to overpower   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The English vanquished the Indian rebellion during the war of 1857.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Victory is achieved once all the enemies have been vanquished. CNN, Web video game aim: 'Kill' Bush characters, 18 September 2006   seminary [ SEM-uh'-ner-ee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a school, especially one providing education in theology the training of ministers, priests, or rabbis 2. a place of origin and propagation 3. a high grade school for young women   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The couple proudly announced that their son had entered the seminary to train for priesthood.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The Mercaz Harav seminary is a well-known center for Jewish studies. BBC, In pictures: Israel seminary attack, 6 March 2008.   precipitant [ pri-SIP-i-tuh'nt ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) rushing headlong 2. (adj.) rash, hasty or acting impulsively in thought or action 3. (adj.) happening abruptly or suddenly 4. (n.) anything that causes precipitation   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The manager's precipitant decision to hire cheap labour resulted in the recruitment of inefficient people who did little or no productive work.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   But you said recently, ... there is no alternative to the occupation in Iraq, it's an inevitable consequence of precipitant military action, withdrawal is unthinkable. ... You couldn't at this point guarantee that Britain and America could pull out at that stage, could you? BBC, Election campaigns, 16 May 2004.   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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