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	03-Jul-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists sycophant [ SIK-uh'-fuh'nt, -fant, SAHY-kuh'- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite. 2. a person who flatters influential people in order to win favour   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The king could trust no one as he was surrounded by sycophants.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   She should first rid herself of the sycophants surrounding her. The Times of India, 'People want Cong back, but it is not reciprocating', by S. Balakrishnan, June 15, 2003   obituary [ oh-BICH-oo-er-ee ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) an eulogy or a published notice of someone's passing away usually accompanying a short sketch about that person's life 2. (adj.) related to or of the recording of deaths or a single death   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The obituary was heartrending.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Nan Britton died in 1991, "evidently so forgotten by history that no obituary was published," the Los Angeles Times later wrote. Elizabeth Ann died in 2005. CNN, 5 feisty presidential daughters, By David Holzel, September 25, 2008   palpability [  PAL-puh'-buh'l-it-ee  ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) the act of sensing by touch   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Many people prefer reading a book to an e-book to appease their sense of palpability.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The reader yearns for the spirit to be allowed to inform artistic endeavour, and not be forced into doing so by an insistence on the palpability of the spirits at the expense of the fleshy and earthy. The Telegraph, A parable the size of a housebrick, 16 August 2007   tipple [ TIP-uh'l ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) intoxicating liquor 2. (n.) a device that tilts a freight car to discharge its contents 3. (tr. v.) to drink liquor 4. (tr. v.) to sip at a cup of liquor   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   They stopped over at the pub for a tipple after the hard day's work.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   For two weeks in the run-up to her historic win, the Iron Lady stuck rigidly to an Atkins-style regime which included 28 eggs per week, steak, salad, and her favourite tipple, whisky. The Telegraph, Margaret Thatcher's victory diet: 28 eggs a week, Gordon Rayner, 30 January 2010.   backslide [ BAK-slahyd ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to go back to one's old bad habits or sinful behaviour 2. (tr. v.) to revert to sin or undesirable activities 3. (n.) an act or instance of reverting to sinful activities   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The psychiatrist said that a backslide was imminent in a criminal who felt no remorse at having committed a crime.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The prime minister is being credited behind the scenes with ensuring that the G8 did not backslide on its commitments to African development. BBC, Credit to the PM, Nick Robinson, 8 July 2008.   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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