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	19-Apr-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists replete [ ri-PLEET ]   [ noun, adjective, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) complete 2. (adj.) stout, fat or well stuffed 3. (adj.) abounding, flourishing or abundant 4. (n.) a member of a species of ants that stores food within its body for the consumption of others   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The original replete works of Keats were housed in this museum.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   From big-time industrialists to those with a gastronomic taste, they all make a beeline to munna to avail the best spread, replete with lavish and grandeur. The Times of India, Gourmet Wonder, 16 Sep 2001   impunity [ im-PYOO-ni-tee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, loss or penalty 2. immunity to the repercussions of an action   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Diplomats have various advantages over common people, impunity being the foremost.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The group called it a "positive, but still insufficient, step in the fight against impunity" in the country, and said "many others -- numbering perhaps in the several hundreds -- must be investigated in Sierra Leone." CNN, Sierra Leone rebel leaders found guilty, February 25, 2009   waffle [ wof-uh l ]   [ noun, adjective, intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a crisp, light battercake that is baked in a waffle iron 2. (n.) an evasive or pretentious writing 3. (adj.) having a surface like that of a waffle 4. (intr.v.) to write or speak vaguely or evasively   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The politicians waffles were used by his opponents during the general elections to prove his inefficiency.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Six hundred years ago, Brussels was just a nice place to stop and buy a waffle on the way to France. CNN, Brussels: One of Europe's great travel secrets, By Rick Steves Tribune Media Services, July 23, 2009   disquisition [ dis-kwuh'-ZISH-uh'n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a formal dissertation 2. a treatise or discourse on a subject   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The disquisition did not achieve its objective as a consensus could not be formed.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   His books are beautiful headache machines crammed with dense disquisitions on, say, virtual reality or the genetic code or the history of soap. CNN, Review: 'Our Singing' a cool breeze, Troy Patterson, 23 January 2003.   predecessor [ PRED-uh'-ses-er, pred-uh'-SES-er or, especially Brit., PREE-duh'-ses-er ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a person who held office before the present person 2. an ancestor   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Like his predecessor, the new minister was not susceptible to bribery.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Like its predecessor, "Iron Man 2" had a solid showing during its opening weekend at the box office. CNN, 'Iron Man 2': complete with teasers and trailers, 10 Mau 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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