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	14-Apr-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists premeditate [ pri-MED-i-teyt ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to consider or scheme in advance 2. (intr. v.) to deliberate or plot beforehand   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The attacks by the terrorists were premeditated.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Saakashvili insists that the Russia action is "premeditated aggression." CNN, Analysis: Georgia's major miscalculation?, By CNN's European Political Editor Robin Oakley, August 11, 2008   genesis [ JEN-uh'-sis ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. something's origin or beginning 2. the first book of the Bible that is related to the creation   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The entire credit of the success of this project goes to him as he has headed it from its genesis.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   To take the last item first, it is surely extraordinary that no less than five years after the genesis of ARP the fundamental precaution of including good shelters in all new buildings should still be a matter for future legislation. Telegraph, Time v security in provision of air raid shelters - Feb 14, 1939, By W F Deedes, 12 Feb 2009   indistinct [ in-di-STINGKT ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. not explicit 2. unclear   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His blasphemous words were indistinct to the people standing a mile away from him.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The pimply teenage girl behind the register insisted that Pendleton was just "over there" and made an indistinct hand gesture that seemed to indicate both north and south simultaneously. CNN, Terror on Trial: Journey to Terre Haute: From cradle to grave, 31 December 2007, accessed 28 August 2009.   orient [ n., adj. AWR-ee-uh'nt, -ee-ent, OHR-; v. AWR-ee-ent  ]   [ noun, verb, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) the east; also the eastern region of the heavens 2. (n.) Asian countries 3. (adj.) exceptionally lustrous or iridescent 4. (tr. v.) to adjust to or become familiar with 5. (tr. v.) to place or position so as to face the east 6. (tr. v.) to align with respect to a point of reference   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Businessmen tour the orient in search of lucrative trade opportunities.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   But Brazil still needs market oriented reforms of taxation, pensions and education. CNN, Heatwaves, trade wars and a World Cup victory for Brazil, 31 December 2009.   spoonerism [ SPOO-nuh'-riz-uh'm ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the transposition of sounds of words or the transposition of parts of two words   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He thought that spoonerism in conversation was humorous but the others did not share his opinion.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Master of the malapropism, spoonerism and the downright nonsensical, the great New York Yankee catcher, Yogi Berra, had an opinion on every subject. The Telegraph, Mickelson's super-hero status loses its shine, Robert Philip, 22 July 2006.   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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