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	04-May-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists ribald [ RIB-uh' ld; spelling pron. RAHY-buh' ld ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) lewd, indecent or vulgar 2. (n.) a person who is vulgar, lewd or ribald   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He purchased a book comprising mainly of ribald jokes.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   There ensued ribald laughter from Conservatives on the backbenches around him. Telegraph, Yesterday in Parliament, By Michael Kallenbach, 15 May 2003   gory [ GAWR-ee, GOHR-ee ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. bloody or bloodstained 2. sensational, unpleasant or bloodcurdling 3. involving or marked by bloodshed   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The gory scenes in the movie were revolting.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   There is some sort of gory fascination with yoga competitions. BBC, Yoga wars, By Andy Dangerfield, 23 January 2009   vindictive [ vin-DIK-tiv ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. vengeful or inclined to exact revenge 2. spiteful or intended to hurt   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The vindictive woman avenged her defeat in the contest by murdering the victor.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In both cases, Serbia was treated, with vindictive disdain, as an untrustworthy, disruptive and fundamentally illegitimate entity. The Chronicles Magazine, The E.U.'s Double Game in the Balkans, Srdja Trifkovic, 25 April 2008   misogamy [ mi-SOG-uh'-mee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. hatred of marriage   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His misogamy resulted from the unpleasantness of the broken marriage of his parents.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The heightened level of misogamy has also been expressed by the journalists newspaper, pointing out that "the viewpoint of coarse and crude male domination —constantly minimizing the conscience of the feminine sex— that oozes from (reggaeton) lyrics, is simply degrading" Wikipedia, Juventud Rebelde, 15 January 2007.   commandeer [ kom-uh'n-DEER ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to force into active military service 2. to seize private property for military use   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   They were unhappy at having been commandeered and said that they believed in non-violence like Mahatma Gandhi.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Iraq admits that its officials commandeered 10 Bombardier jets in 1990 but claims that four of the aircraft were destroyed at Mosul Airport in Western bombing raids, while the remaining six were returned to Kuwait via Iran. The Telegraph, First flight from Baghdad to London in 20 years ends in farce with plane impounded, Damien McElroy, 1 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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