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	02-May-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists sapient [ SEY-pee-uh' nt ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. sagacious, wise or shrewd 2. pertaining to or of humans viz. homo sapiens   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His sapient inputs made the presentation a success.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   As Andrei Piontkovsky, a sapient Russian commentator, points out, an alliance between Russia and China would be like one between a rabbit and a boa constrictor, with Russia as the lapine element. The Economist, The new cold what?, Sep 4th 2008   incantation [ in-kan-TEY-shuh' n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. recitation or chant of magical words or spells 2. an employed formula or the words in the charm or spell 3. sorcery or magic   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The incantation had to be said clearly for the charm to work.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   There is undeniable pleasure to be had reducing a city to rubble with a few incantations. BBC, Wizard encounters in a warring world, By Mark Ward, 22 July, 2002   veritable [ VER-i-tuh'-buh'l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   genuine, real or not imaginary   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   It took him two hours to prove to the police that he was a veritable actor from the Indian film industry.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Mountains like people come in many guises and Scotland possesses a veritable kaleidoscope of peaks. BBC, Mountaineering, Irvine Butterfield, 23 october 2007   amble [ AM-buh'l ]   [ noun, intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr. v.) to saunter or stroll 2. (intr. v.) to walk leisurely 3. (n.) a leisurely walk   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Hand in hand, the couple ambled in the garden.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The other is a humbler, but far more refined affair, where the maximum pace need be no more than a gentle amble. The Telegraph, Unsporting behaviour, 18 September 2009.   hurl [ hurl ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to throw with great force 2. (tr. v.) to fling to the earth or cast down 3. (tr. v.) to utter forcefully 4. (intr. v.) to launch a missile directed at 5.(intr. v.) to pitch a baseball 6. (n.) a violent throw   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   A miscreant hurled a brick at the shop's window and ran away.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Red Shirt protesters hurl containers filled with their own blood into the government and residential compound of the prime minister. The Telegraph, Thailand violence: timeline, 19 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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