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	12-Sep-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists immure [ i-MYOO' R  ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to surround or enclose within walls; imprison 2. to build into or entomb in wall   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The dreaded terrorist was immured in a high security prison.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   True, there was a Mughal emperor in Delhi until 1857, but he was emperor in name only, the shadow of a memory, described by Lord Macaulay as 'a mock sovereign immured in a gorgeous state prison'. Anthony Read, The Proudest Day   abstemious [ ab-STEE-mee-uh's  ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. moderate or sparing esp. in eating and drinking 2. characterised by abstinence   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The secret to a long life may very well lie in being abstemious.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Until recently you would associate gout with boozing and rich food, but there are plenty of other patients who are quite abstemious. This might be a genetic marker for gout risk. BBC News, Gene 'linked to higher gout risk'   quotidian [ kwoh-TID-ee-uh' n ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. occurring daily 2. commonplace or ordinary; nothing unusual   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Due to his impecunious state he was finding it difficult to meet his quotidian needs of three meals.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   But, if anything, his art was a beautifully sane challenge to the systematic assault on the subjective and quotidian that was already grinding away when he entered the madhouse. The Independent, Book of a Lifetime: Selected Stories by Robert Walser, John Burnside, 30 May 2008   hovel [ HUHV-uh' l, HOV- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a small and miserable dwelling 2. an open shed which is low   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Being a man without means, the best accommodation he could afford in Mumbai was a hovel.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   When your home is a hovel, a neighbour seems an enemy because everybody is fighting for too little space. The Times of India, Creating your own space, Vastu Shastra/JUGAL KISHOR, 17 Mar 2002   dissertation [ dis-er-TEY-shuh' n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. an extended, formal exposition in speech or writing 2. a thesis or treatise esp. written by a candidate for his or her doctorate   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His brilliant dissertation enabled him to secure a faculty position at a prestigious ivy league university.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Stanford first met Jackson when she was completing her doctoral dissertation on his foreign policy record. ABC News, Jesse Jackson's Ex-Mistress Has No Regrets, Aug. 17   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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