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	20-Apr-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists revere [ ri-VEER ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to honour, respect or look up to in awe 2. (n.) revers   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The saint was revered throughout the land.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Yul Brynner's portrayal of an earlier monarch, the revered King Mongkut, or Rama IV, cannot be seen in Thailand. BBC, Thailand's 'Soul of the Nation', By John Murphy, 27 November, 2002   hubris [ HYOO-bris, HOO- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   arrogance, insolence or excessive pride or self-confidence   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His hubris was the cause of his downfall.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   There is a kind of hubris in this withdrawal, as though being depressed were a way of saying, "this imperfect, difficult world is not good enough for me. CNN, Are you depressed -- or just disappointed?, By Michael Vincent Miller, January 27, 2009   vestige [ VES-tij ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a trace of something that is not existent any more 2. a degenerate or remnant of an organ that was fully developed and working in an earlier generation   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Many vestiges of the Indus Valley Civilization were uncovered during the excavation carried out at Mohenjo-daro in Pakistan.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Bank of England Governor Eddie George has offered a vestige of comfort to the UK's hard-pressed manufacturing sector. BBC, Business: The Economy UK rates will fall 'if deemed necessary', November 26, 1998   arboretum [ ahr-buh'-REE-tuh'm ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a botanical garden 2. a piece of land on which different plants are grown either for study or show   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The college had a well maintained arboretum for those students who had opted for botany as a subject.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Tony Kirkham, head of arboretum at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the UK's leading authority on tree planting, gives his top tips for planting trees. The Telegraph, Top tips for tree planting, 22 December 2009.   benediction [ ben-i-DIK-shuh'n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a blessing or an expression good wishes 2. the invocation of divine blessing or the blessing pronounced by an officiating minister   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The old man's benediction was misinterpreted by the ignorant villagers as a curse because he spoke with a lisp.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Henry is supposed to have abased himself before his father in a cloak full of needles to signify thrifty intentions and to have earned, in return, a touching benediction. BBC, The Myth of Henry V, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, 5 November 2009.   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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