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	23-Jul-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists modicum [ MOD-i-kuh' m ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   a moderate or small amount   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   If George Bush had a modicum of integrity, he would admit that the war in Iraq was not intended to free the Iraqi people from an oppressive and murderous regime but simply for US companies to take control of Iraqi oil assets.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   We must assume that Thompson and Rogers were both ordinary country lads who fancied a life with a modicum of excitement, a bit of a uniform, and a small but steady wage instead of being a farm hand. BBC, Abermule Disaster 1921, 24 April 2007   hiatus [ hahy-EY-tuh' s ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a break, gap or interruption 2. an aperture or passage in an organ 3. a temporary halt in pronunciation when two successive vowels are present in adjacent words or syllables   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The current hiatus in military activities between the army and the Naga rebels is the longest since the eruption of hostilities in 1949.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   That eight-year interval may be the longest reproductive hiatus of any mammal. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, Cheryl Knott, Biological Anthropologist   colossal [ kuh'-LOS-uh' l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   of enormous size   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The colossal ruins of Angkor Vat are Cambodia's main tourist site.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Through colossal blunders, Britain twice declared war on a Germany that had not attacked her and did not want war with her. Chronicles Magazine, Was the Holocaust Inevitable?, by Patrick J. Buchanan   foist [ foist ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to insert or introduce fraudulently 2. to pass off something fake as something genuine 3. to impose without proper justification   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The US invaded Iraq in 1993 after the CIA attempted to foist a nuclear proliferation charge against the Saddam Hussein regime.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   When he made it mandatory for all teachers and students of ABE schools to show up on the morning of August 15, a few teachers actually protested the decision with lawyers' notices stating that Independence Day was a public holiday and the board could not foist them with flag hoisting. THE TIMES OF INDIA, Parents, teachers too want a holiday, 15 Aug 2008, Anahita Mukherji,TNN   glower [ GLOU-er ]   [ noun, intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr. v.) to scowl or stare with anger 2. (n.) an annoyed or resentful look   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The comedian's spoof on the Father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi made the people in the audience glower.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   When I go for my morning walk, I glower at any vehicle in my stride; an hour later on the same stretch, the equation is totally reversed. THE TIMES OF INDIA, Run over by life? Get streetsmart, 16 Dec 2007, Bachi Karkaria   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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