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	17-Jul-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists presage [ n. PRES-ij; v. PRES-ij, pri-SEYJ ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) an omen, prediction or intuition 2. (tr. v.) to predict, warn or foretell 3. (intr. v.) to have a premonition or to foretell   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Hearing the presage sent chills down everyone's spines.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Our members also have wider concerns that the new council will presage further cuts in funding for physical sciences and the early haemorrhage of key staff from the research councils concerned. BBC, UK physics funding to be revamped, 25 July 2006   vanguard [ VAN-gahrd ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the foremost position in an army advancing into a battle. 2. the foremost or leading position or persons in a trend or movement.   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The commandos or special forces are always at the vanguard of any battle in which the Indian army takes part in.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   As West's vanguard approached the outskirts of the city, it encountered a defended roadblock. Patton's Vanguard: The United States Army Fourth Armored Division, By Don M. Fox   reprehensible [ rep-ri-HEN-suh'-buh' l ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   blameworthy or deserving rebuke   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The reprehensible act must not go unpunished.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Animal Rights Africa said killing elephants was "undeniably cruel and morally reprehensible" as well as counterproductive. National Geographic, South Africa to Allow Elephant Killing, Celean Jacobson, February 25, 2008   insipid [ in-SIP-id ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. bland, unsavoury taste 2. insignificant, lacking impact 3. uninteresting or lacking stimulating, distinctive qualities   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The insipid food served up by the new restaurant elicited few patrons.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Deep in injury time, with a header every bit as emphatic as his overall performance had been insipid, Thierry Henry taught Manchester United a valuable lesson in taking nothing for granted. The Herald, Arsenal 2 - 1 Manchester United, KAREN GILES   quixotic [ kwik-SOT-ik ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. pertaining to or of don quixote 2. romantic or chivalrous 3. impractical 4. unpredictable, rash or impulsive   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His quixotic nature often got him in trouble.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   However, the suggestion that we should be aiming at Dutch participation rates in cycling by the over 60s is just quixotic. The Herald, Cycling as a mass form of transport is pure fantasy, February 27 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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