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	25-Jun-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists supercilious [ soo-per-SIL-ee-uh's ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   haughty, arrogant or disdainfully contemptuous   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Her supercilious attitude lost her many friends.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   I shudder to watch interviewers who think it clever to be snide, supercilious, or downright offensive. BBC, Tributes to Sir Robin Day, 8 August, 2000   irresolute [ i-REZ-uh'-loot ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   doubtful, vacillating, indecisive, unstable or inconstant   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His irresolute attitude causes a lot of confusion as deadlines are not met.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   This approach yields some alarming and even beautiful effects; but such stage magic requires a fully abstracted set rather than the irresolute compromise of Tom Piper's design. Telegraph, Royal, gaudy fate, By Irving Wardle, 20 Feb 2009   lucubrate [  LOO-kyoo'-breyt  ]   [ intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to write in a learned manner 2. to work or study hard especially late into the night   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The critic lucubrated on all the ideas expressed in the author's book.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Under the Eisenhower program, one could lucubrate over constitutional rights and freedoms and forever abandon captured American soldiers. Editorial Reviews, Amazon.com Review   bourgeois [ boor-zhwah ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a member of the middle class 2.(adj.) conventional; middle-class.   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The bourgeois were often blamed for the state of the economy.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   There was a Marxist professor of history in Delhi University in the 1970s who used to brag in his lectures that "There are two interpretations of history: the Marxist and the bourgeois and the Marxist version is the correct one." The Time of India, India needs more Argumentative Indians, Swapan Dasgupta, 17 January 2010.   fulcrum [ FOO'L-kruh'm, FUHL ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) the support on which a lever turns when moving a body 2. (n.) any structure in an animal which serve as a hinge or support 3. (tr. v.) to fit a lever with a pivot or support   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The labourer used a pole as a lever and a rock as the fulcrum to topple the oil barrel on its side so that it could be rolled into the shed.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   But every seesaw needs a fulcrum on which to balance; a catalyst to inspire them; a pin to pop their overblown balloons. BBC, Encounters and Exits, 13 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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