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	03-Aug-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists nostrum [ NOS-truh' m ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a favourite scheme for solving social and political problems 2. a medicine whose ingredients are a secret and its effectiveness is unproved   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The nostrum for cough sold by roadside quacks can have unpleasant side effects.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   And it came from the astonishing nostrum that a liberal, black first-term senator could overturn the biggest machine, the biggest name and the biggest dynasty in Democratic party politics. ABC News, Wedding Flowers for GMA Couple, June 12   jejune [  ji-JOON ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. lacking interest or importance; dull 2. having little or no nutritive value 3. childish; immature   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The jejune novel did not hold my interest.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Will audiences follow him, cheering the implicit detonation of America's institutions? Or will they find it all a bit ... jejune? CNN, EW review: 'V for Vendetta,' O for OK, Owen Gleiberman, March 17, 2006   impeccable [ im-PEK-uh'-buh'l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. without any flaws or faults 2. incapable of committing sin   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His charm and impeccable manners overwhelmed us all.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In my opinion though, the College has an impeccable social conscience. OXFORD, GRADUATE ADMISSIONS   effulgent [ i-FUHL-juh' nt, i-FOO' L- ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   shiny or brilliantly radiant   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The effulgent lamp cast a reassuring glow around the dark room.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Like those arrangements of effulgent – but rotting – fruit and flowers; those extravagant boards, groaning with gold plate and glass; those coded symbols – the guttering candle, the hourglass, the stopped watch: the glimpsed lives of Jackson's subjects are profoundly still, and fraught with symbolism. Telegraph, The rotting fruit of fame, 13/10/2007   lagniappe [ lan-YAP, LAN-yap ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a small gift presented by a merchant to the customer   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The large purchase made by the couple compelled the store owner to present a lagniappe to them.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Intelligence is an experiment in evolutionary terms, an ecologically surplus ability -- a lagniappe, extra goods. National Geographic, Tales of Animal Intrigue, Interview with Eugene Linden, by Mindy Pennybacker   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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