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	15-Aug-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists invidious [ in-VID-ee-uh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. objectionable; tending to cause ill will or resentment 2. unfair; offensively discriminating   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His propensity to make habitual invidious remarks made him extremely unpopular.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The emerging political, economic and security divides are no less invidious. The Times of India, LEADER ARTICLE: Bridge Global Divides, Brahma Chellaney, 28 Jan 2008   delirium [ di-LEER-ee-uh' m ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a brief, temporary state of mental confusion characterised by hallucination, delusions, incoherent speech, caused by high fever, shock, intoxication or other causes 2. a state of uncontrolled and frenzied emotion   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The news of her son's death left her in a state of delirium.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   On Wednesday, forensic pathologist Dr David Raus told the inquest that Excited Delirium (ED), a condition some doctors believe can lead to a heart attack, was responsible for Mr Sylvester's death. BBC, 'Syndrome killed custody man', By Cindi John, BBC News Online community affairs reporter, 24 September, 2003   grandiose [ GRAN-dee-ohs ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. remarkably grand or important 2. grand in a pretentious way   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The grandiose palace at Versailles is a major tourist attraction.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   We sat down for lunch in a grandiose dining room with wood-carved panels on the walls and about 15 tables. National Geographic, Lake Tanganyika, 1 September 2004   lambent [ LAM-buh' nt ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. flickering lightly over or on a surface 2. giving off a gentle glow 3. effortlessly brilliant   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The lambent light over the surface of the water warned me that a vessel was approaching.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   His lambent instrumentals seem to tap deep into some genetic memory - disquietly nostalgic pieces which draw from hundreds of years of folk, blues, the Old West, Asia and everywhere. BBC, Jack Rose @ Raffles Art Café, 11.02.06, Thomas Duxbury   officious [ uh'-FISH-uh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   characterized by excessive intrusiveness, offering unwanted services or advice to others; meddlesome   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Officious interference in almost all matters by the bureaucracy has been the bane of our country.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   My friend Reilly has the perfect put-down for that officious secretary with the superior, mock-British accent who fends off all phone calls to her boss with some icy variation of, "Can I tell him the subject of your call?" CNN, Nobody asked me, but....,Mark Shields, August 15, 2005   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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