TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 29-May-12

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	29-May-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists scorn [ skawrn ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to reject with utmost contempt or scorn 2. (intr.v.) to treat with scorn or reject disdainfully 3. (n.) a contemptuous or disdainful rejection   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She scorned anyone who disagreed with her.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   But there has been a counter, more populist tradition, which is not only to scorn liberal ideas but to scorn ideas entirely. CNN, Palin's future causes Republican rift, By Alexander Mooney, October 29, 2008   minutiae [ mi-NOO-shee-uh', -shuh', -NYOO- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   trivial, minute, minor or unnecessary details   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The new policies were concerned about the minutiae of every employee.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The BBC declined to comment on Stourton's version of events, saying it would not be "discussing the minutiae" of the situation. BBC, Stourton 'devastated' by removal, 15 December 2008   lustrous [ LUHS-truh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. shining 2. well-known   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The mobile handset was sleek and had a lustrous, metallic body.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A rising generation, meanwhile, knows the carnage and chaos only as a distant childhood distraction, and, for them, a lustrous science- and technology-driven future beckons. CNN, Author illuminates a forgotten corner of history, Christopher Shea, 7 February 2000   harangue [ huh'-RANG ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to scold 2. (intr. v.) to address a scolding to 3. (n. ) a long and pompous speech or verbal attack 4. (n.) a speech with strong feelings and expression   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   When children are constantly harangued about what they shouldn't be doing, more often than not, they end up doing just what they're told not to do.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The latest breach saw five pro-hunting protesters burst into the Commons and harangue Rural Affairs Minister and Cardiff South and Penarth MP Alun Michael. BBC, Not so tight after all, David, 15 September, 2004.   pestilential [ pes-tl-EN-shuh'l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. causing, relating to or tending to produce a deadly epidemic disease 2. of the nature of a virulent epidemic disease 3. very harmful or deadly   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The bubonic plague was the most pestilential woe of the middle ages.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Contending with pestilential swamps and violent encounters, the mortality rate was 55 per 1,000 men, compared with 10 for fleets in the Mediterranean or in home waters. BBC, The Royal Navy and the Battle to End Slavery, Huw Lewis-Jones, 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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