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	02-Aug-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists gendarme [ ZHAHN-dahrm; Fr. zhahn-DARM ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. in France, a member of the police organization constituting a branch of the armed forces 2. slang - any police officer   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   North African immigrants in France are treated harshly and brutally by the gendarme whenever they are suspected of criminal involvement.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Hannelore, Peter's wife, was taking pictures, and I joked to Mario that the gendarmes were going to come running out any second. National Geographic, Mayotte Petite Île Étrange, October 10-12, 2004   chagrin [ shuh'-GRIN ]   [ noun, verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a feeling of mental unease or embarrassment due to failure 2. (v.) to cause embarrassment   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   To his chagrin, the show ended just as he arrived.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   These two malcontents were chagrined at the raid by the FBI upon the headquarters of David Koresh's Branch Davidian religious cult two years earlier; more than 70 people died in a fire that began during the raid. BBC, Chemical Cock-Ups: The 1921 Oppau Disater and its Aftermath, 20th July, 2006   curmudgeon [ ker-MUHJ-uh' n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a person who is ill tempered and irritable   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Although anecdotal evidence would have it that the older a person gets, the more he turns into a curmudgeon, there have been no official studies made to either prove or disprove this view.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He said he regretted to report that age appeared to be mellowing him, and that people would have to stop referring to him as a curmudgeon. BBC, Catch 22 Author Dies, 14 December, 1999   larceny [ LAHR-suh'-nee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   the unlawful taking of someone else's personal property   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Most people would agree with Mahatma Gandhi's view that European colonialism of Asian and African people was larceny perpetrated on a grand scale.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Lorello, an archives and records management specialist in the New York Department of Education, pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, and scheming to defraud and was released on his recognizance National Geographic, Archivist Charged With Stealing Papers, Selling on eBay , Clare Trapasso, January 29, 2008   maverick [ MAV-er-ik, MAV-rik ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1.a person who is unconventional and unorthodox in his thoughts. 2. an orphaned calf, considered the property of the first person who brands it.   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The young maverick often clashed with the older, more inflexible managers in his company.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   On the one hand, in the community, I really am an establishment kind of guy; on the other hand, in the marketplace, I have always been a maverick who enjoys shaking things up and creating a little anarchy. MSN Encarta, Sam Walton (1918 - 1992), U.S. retail executive referring to the Wal-Mart department store chain which he founded in 1962   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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