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	10-Sep-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists kindle [ KIN-dl ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to build or fuel a fire; to ignite 2. (tr. v.) to light up 3. (tr. v.) to arouse an emotion 4. (intr. v.) to burst into flames 5. (intr. v.) to become inflamed 6. to be stirred up   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   A short circuit can very often kindle a fire.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Hundreds of concrete slabs — each about 12-by-6-feet and designed to shield against car bombs and other threats — were gradually turned into an open air art gallery meant to boost spirits and kindle optimism. ABC News, Baghdad Muralists Resist Push for Sectarian Themes, By BRIAN MURPHY, July 25, 2008 (AP)   glasnost [ GLAZ-nost, GLAHZ ; Russ'. GLAHS-nuh' st ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a Soviet policy allowing frank and open discussion about national socio-economic problems   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The policy of glasnost initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev led to the collapse of the totalitarian regime in the Soviet Union and consequently to the birth of democratic institutions there.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Mr Gorbachev pioneered the "glasnost" (openness) policy that demolished decades of Soviet censorship. BBC, Gorbachev invests in major paper, 8 June 2006   fait accompli [ fe ta*-kawn*-PLEE ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a thing already done or accomplished, presumably irreversible   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Iraq's defeat to the US and British forces in 2003 was a fait accompli long before the fall of Baghdad.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   While no formal announcement was made, many saw the deal as a fait accompli. The New York Times, Merger of XM and Sirius Appears Close to Approval, By TIM ARANGO, July 24, 2008   highbrow [ HAHY-brou ]   [ noun, verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a person who has or affects a highly cultivated and intellectual taste 2. (v.) of, relating to or being intellectual or cultivated   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Lawrence Durrell's highbrow tetralogy "The Alexandra Quartet" is widely regarded as one of the most important novels of the twentieth century.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   THE post-apocalyptic seems to be all the rage with readers of novels and short stories, both highbrow and low. The Economist, Prize-winning fiction:Apocalypse now, Jul 10th 2008   quisling [ KWIZ-ling ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a person who collaborates with the invading enemy and thus betrays his or her own country   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Mir Zafar is the most infamous quisling in Indian history.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The "coalition" forces are the foreigners, in fact, and the US-financed quisling local government fools no one, regardless of the planned "handover" of power. The Nation, The more we try the worse Iraq gets, Robert Scheer, April 6, 2004   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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