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	20-Aug-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists leer [ leer ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a sidelong look that indicates sly and malicious intent   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The young girl wearing a micro-mini dress and walking with a provocative gait made onlookers leer.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Most impressively, he won a role of a lifetime as The Joker, complete with a lipstick-smeared leer, in The Dark Knight, this summer's highly anticipated follow-up to 2005's Batman Begins. ABC News, Heath Ledger: A Budding Career Cut Tragically Short, By SUSAN WLOSZCZYNA, Jan. 23, 2008   doctrine [ DOK-trin ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a principle, belief system, or policy that is taught or advocated 2. something that is taught 3. a principle or rule of law that is established esp. by a precedent 4. a statement of government policy esp. concerned with international relations or military strategy   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The doctrine of the Catholic Church imposes strict celibacy on all its priests.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The doctrine was written last year by the man who will command US forces in Iraq, Lieutenant General David Petraeus. BBC, The Bush plan and the Petraeus doctrine, Analysis, By Paul Reynolds, 11 January 2007   quibble [ KWIB-uh' l ]   [ noun, intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr. v.) to avoid or try to escape the truth by raising petty and irrelevant objections 2. (intr. v.) to criticise or bicker for trivial reasons 3. (n.) an evasion from the truth or relevant point 4. (n.) a petty objection or unnecessary criticism   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   With the economy in a deep recession, this is no time for the national leadership to quibble over petty and trivial issues.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Be flexible with the vendor and don't quibble over minor points. BBC, Buying a property - Advice for first-time buyers, on viewing, putting in an offer and the dangers of gazumping   nincompoop [ NIN-kuh' m-poop, NING- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a person who is silly and weak-minded; a simpleton   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The communist nincompoops in West Bengal managed- in thirty years- to convert a prosperous state into a wasteland.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Mr Dromgoole likes to use a schoolboy lingo, designed to take the reader back to innocent times before Shakespeare was hijacked by the "bootboys" of cultural materialism and the "over-analytical nincompoops hellbent on stuffing weird intentions into the plays." The Economist, Living by Shakespeare, Mar 30th 2006   conundrum [ kuh'-NUHN-druh' m ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a riddle whose answer involves a play of words or is a pun 2. a difficult and intricate problem   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Children love the challenge of solving a conundrum.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Fans' apparent apathy toward the dark side of sports, as reflected in their continued financial support, presents a conundrum for owners and officials: If the fans are still paying to see the games, why should we take any drastic measures to try to fix it? ABC News, State of Sports: More Cheaters, Dopers, Criminals -- and Fans -- Than Ever Before, By JON WIENER, July 10, 2008   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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