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	02-Apr-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists progenitor [ proh-JEN-i-ter ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. an ancestor or a forefather 2. an originator, precursor, predecessor or founder   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He is one of the contenders to the title of the progenitor of impressionism.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The temperate, tolerant Western Europeans are handing themselves over to the leading progenitor of war, slavery, and civilizational disaster of the past fourteen centuries: Islam. Chronicles magzine, The Eurabian Revolution, by Gregory M. Davis   impale [ im-PEYL ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to fasten or stick 2. to pierce with something sharp or pointed 3. to punish and render helpless by piercing   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He impaled his sword into the dummy targets' chest during practice.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A 13-year-old boy is recovering in hospital after he became impaled on metal railings at his home in Walsall. BBC, Teenager impaled on metal spike, 8 November, 2004   implosion [ im-ploh-zhuh'n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. an inward blast 2. a demolition technique where a controlled blast causes the structure to cave in and not blow up or explode outwards.   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The teacher explained that this chemical reaction would cause an implosion rather than an explosion.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The demolition, a job valued at $1 million, was done for free with 10 pounds of explosives by Controlled Demolition Inc. of Phoenix, Md., in exchange for the right to videotape the implosion for promotional purposes. CNN, Gettysburg tower imploded, Melia Bowie, 5 July 2000   metamorphosis [ met-uh'-MAWR-fuh'-sis ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a profound change in form from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism 2. a complete change in the character, appearance or circumstances 3. a transformation by magic or sorcery   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The documentary film was about the metamorphosis of a tadpole into a frog.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Arthropod hatchling vary from miniature adults to grubs and caterpillars that lack jointed limbs and eventually undergo a total metamorphosis to produce the adult form. BBC, Arthropods   eccentric [ ik-SEN-trik, ek ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) odd or peculiar 2. (adj.) deviating from the recognized or conventional 3. (adj.) an axis or axle which is not situated in the centre or not having the same centre 4. (adj.) straying from a circular form (elliptic orbit) 5. (n.) a person who behaves in an unusual, peculiar, or odd way or has a peculiar set of beliefs 6. (n.) something that is odd, unusual or peculiar   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His neighbours avoided him because of his eccentric behaviour.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   During her time in Borth, Meryl became known in the village as something of an aloof and eccentric bohemian, wearing exotic hats and constantly smoking cigarettes. BBC, Portmeirion artist Meryl Watts's work under the hammer, 24 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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