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	30-Jun-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists surreptitious [ sur-uh'p-TISH-uh's ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. to attain or achieve stealthily 2. to behave or act in a secretive, stealthy way   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The surreptitious takeover of the company was foiled.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The information available to government does not indicate any surreptitious entry into the stock market or real estate market by terrorist outfits,"" Finance Minister P Chidambaram said in a written reply in Lok Sabha on Friday. The Times of India, No terror outfits operating in stock, realty markets: FM, August 17, 2007   oaf [ ohf ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a lout or clumsy, awkward or stupid person 2. a dunce or blockhead   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He is considered to be an oaf, a man lacking the finer sensibilities of life.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Douglas Campbell, of disabled transport group Mobilise, branded Anthony Steen a "pompous oaf" over the comments. BBC, Parking bay MP branded 'an oaf', 1 June 2007   palliate [  PAL-ee-eyt  ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to make a misdeed seem less severe 2. (tr. v.) to relieve the symptoms of an illness   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He palliated his errors by getting rid of half the evidence.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   By the year 2020 cancer survivors will be living in these houses as a result of implemention of integrated treatment by oncologists and bone marrow transplanters to indeed cure instead of palliate and provide freedom of life instead of capture by disease. CNN, Just Imagine - Living Space: Your views, 27 November 2007   filigree [ FIL-i-gree ]   [ noun, adjective, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) delicate and intricate ornamental work made from fine twisted wire of gold or silver 2. (n.) a delicate, intricate and fanciful ornamentation 3. (adj.) made of or resembling delicate and intricate ornaments 4. (tr. v.) to decorate with delicate and intricate design work   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was the best goldsmith in town and had a team of jewellery designers who were experts at filigree work.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Each bore decoration in gold filigree, the applied wire fused with the metal beneath to form an invisible bond. BBC, Hidden Treasure Fact Files, Dr Neil Faulkner, 5 November 2009.   stalwart [ STAWL-wert ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) strongly and sturdily built 2. (tr. v.) valiant; brave and strong 3. (tr. v.) uncompromising or steadfast 4. (n.) a physically strong and sturdy person 5.(n.) an uncompromising partisan   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The security guards employed by the bank were all stalwart ex-army personnel.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Leeds United stalwart Gary Kelly is to retire at the end of the season. BBC, Leeds veteran Kelly set to retire, 1 May 2007.   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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