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	07-May-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists sobriety [ suh'-BRAHY-i-tee, soh- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. in a sober condition 2. abstinence in the consumption of or moderation when consuming alcohol 3. solemnity, sedateness or seriousness   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was asked to leave class because of his lack of sobriety.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   My husband completed 11 years of sobriety yesterday, she announces, her smile growing radiant with the heavy applause that follows. The Times of India, Fighting the spirits with spirituality, Sharmila Ganesan, TNN, 1 Jun 2008   grapple [ GRAP-uh' l ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr.v.) to hold or seize firmly 2. (intr.v.) to struggle or try to overcome 3. (tr.v.) to seize, grip or hold tightly and firmly 4. (n.) a grapnel, hook or other similar instrument used to fasten an object to another 5. (n.) a hand-to-hand fight or struggle   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He grappled, lost his footing and was hanging onto the ledge only with his finger tips.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Zimbabwe's new leaders are grappling with a massive humanitarian and economic crisis. CNN, Zimbabwe court orders jailed politician freed, February 18, 2009   intransigent [ in-TRAN-si-juh'nt ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) unbending 2. (adj.) steadfast in one's opinion 3. (n.) a person who is adamant   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His intransigent ways made him very difficult to work with.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Relations continued to deteriorate and the American resistance became more intransigent. BBC, Was the American Revolution Inevitable? Francis D Cogliano, 5 September 2009   giddy [ GID-ee ]   [ verb, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) dizzy or causing dizziness 2. (adj.) frivolous 3. (v.) to become or make dizzy   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He felt giddy after the ride on the merry-go-round.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Republicans have been downright giddy following the off-year elections in Virginia and New Jersey. CNN, Are Republicans too giddy? Julian E. Zelizer, 10 November 2010.   scourge [ skurj ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a whip or a lash 2. (n.) a person who administers punishment or severe criticism 3. (n.) a cause of calamity or affliction 4. (tr. v.) to punish by whipping 5.(tr. v.) to chastise or criticize severely   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Anyone caught stealing would be administered twelve strokes of the scourge in the market square.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He was elected as a nationalist reformer, the scourge of the landowning classes. The Telegraph, Hot on the heels of Imelda Marcos, Nick Meo, 2 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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