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	09-Aug-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists upbraid [ uhp-BREYD ]   [ verb ]   MEANING :   to find fault with or reproach sharply   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The court upbraided the police for their harsh and brutal methods.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Some restaurants have introduced no-mobile-telephone areas and the elderly managers of the kissaten, the coffee houses that serve as the equivalent of the pub in Japanese towns and villages, are willing to upbraid customers whose noise levels break the usual calm. Telegraph, The Far East fights back over menace of the mobile phone, By Damien McElroy in Beijing, 19/06/2001   hoi polloi [ HOI puh'-LOI ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   the general populace; common people; the masses   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The hoi polloi may decide which party will rule India but it is the chattering classes that keep it in power.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The remark by the leader of the City of Edinburgh Council only serves to remind the Electorate that the Lib-Dems have always considered themselves above the hoi polloi (mass) of voters. The Herald, Council chief gets a dressing down over 'hoi polloi' remark, By BRIAN DONNELLY, August 30 2007   incendiary [ in-SEN-dee-er-ee ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) related to the illegal act of setting fire to property 2. (adj.) capable of fiery combustion 3. (adj.) causing dissension, hatred or anger; inflammatory 4. (adj.) tending to arouse the senses 1. (n.) a person who deliberately sets fire to property 2. (n.) a bomb or grenade that explodes giving out intense heat   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The incendiary burning of the Golden temple in 1984 by security forces outraged the sentiments of the Sikh community.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   This first edition appeared during a brief window of loosening of censorship—after the Fire of London and during a political upheaval--its undistinguished quarto format disguising the potentially incendiary ideas within. University of Oxford, 'To Justify the Ways of God to Men': Paradise Lost, Bodleian Library, Oxford, Dec 2007 - Apr 2008   oligopoly [ ol-i-GOP-uh'-lee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a market situation wherein there exist only a few sellers, thus inadvertently being able to affect the market price and other market factors   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The retail oil oligopoly is the main reason why consumers in India are compelled to pay high prices for fuel and suffer lengthy queues in petrol pumps.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Groups such as the Consumer Federation of American blame oil company mergers during the past several decades for reducing the number of refiners to the point that there is now a "domestic oil oligopoly." ABC News, Pain in the Gas: Refinery Troubles Push Gas Prices Higher, By CHARLES HERMAN, May 15, 2007   fusillade [ FYOO-suh'-leyd, -lahd, -zuh'- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a discharge of firearms simultaneously or continuously 2. a rapid outburst or discharge of anything; barrage   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The fusillade at CST station caused the maximum number of casualties in the 26/11 terror attacks.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Two of the five police officers under investigation by a Queens grand jury appeared Monday to testify about a 50-shot fusillade that killed an unarmed man on his wedding day. Los Angeles Times, Cops go before Bell jury, March 5, 2007   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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