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	26-Apr-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists sedition [ si-DISH-uh' n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   rebellion or incitement against an authority or a government   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was arrested on charges of sedition.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Malaysian authorities charged three ethnic Indian activists with sedition yesterday in an apparent bid to stop a rally in support of a lawsuit that holds the British responsible for the Indians' economic woes. The Herald, Protest bid over £2 trillion case   fret [ fret ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr.v.) to brood or express discontent or worry 2. (intr.v.) to gnaw into, corrode or erode 3. (tr.v.) to vex, trouble or annoy 4. (tr.v.) to erode or corrode away or gnaw into 5. (n.) a mental state of being vexed, annoyed or irritated 6. (n.) erosion or corrosion   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His nature caused him to frown upon the world and fret in a show of discontent.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   After years of wearing down metal frets and having pieces of his guitar rip off or malfunction during shows, Van Halen says he's built a guitar that even he can't destroy. CNN, Eddie Van Halen reinvents the guitar, By Denise Quan, February 4, 2009   veer [ veer ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr.v.) to shift or change direction from one position or course to another 2. (intr.v.) to shift clockwise in direction 3. (tr.v.) to turn or change direction of 4. (n.) a swerve or change in direction   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   During the meeting, the manager veered off course and began to discuss the recent news.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A device worn like a MP3 player could help correct balance problems by signalling when the wearer starts to veer off course. BBC, Sound advice for balance problems, By Marina Murphy, 19 September 2005   precocious [ pri-KOH-shuh's ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. unusually advanced development mentally 2. characterized by or pertaining to unusually advanced development or maturity   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   A precocious student in the sixth grade won the quiz competition by defeating the senior students.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Hawaiian-born Michelle Wie was not even a teenager in 2000 but was already turning heads with her precocious ability which easily outstripped that of boys of the same age. CNN, How Tiger defined golf in the Noughties, Paul Gittings, 28 December 2009.   berserk [ ber-SURK ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) crazed or deranged 2. (adj.) violently disturbed or frenzied   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The young, berserk man was caught by the police before he could cause any harm.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   According to a Xinhua report, the local farmer went berserk after the local police told him that the family house he had just built using 110,000 yuan (US$16,110) of family savings had to be torn down because it had been built on farmland, which is illegal in China. CNN, Execution does not stop Chinese knife attacks, Jaime FlorCruz, 3 May 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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