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	24-Sep-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists irascible [ i-ras-uh-buh l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. very irritable; short-tempered 2. marked or produced by anger or hot temper   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The irascible Sales Manager gave a dressing down to his team for not achieving their monthly targets.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He will forever be linked to the irascible newsroom boss he played on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its dramatic spinoff, "Lou Grant." CNN, Ed Asner on the life that won him life achievement award, March 10, 2002   obstreperous [ uh' b-STREP-er-uh's ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   noisy or aggressively boisterous   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The teacher tried in vain to restrain the obstreperous children.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Let's start with Margaret O'Brien, an obstreperous child persona of the 1940s who is uncannily channeled by Abigail Breslin in "Definitely, Maybe." Los Angles Times, 'Definitely, Maybe', BY JAN STUART, February 14, 2008   filch [ filch ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to steal furtively 2. pilfer   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   It is a common occurrence for patrons to filch plates, knives and forks from restaurants.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Likewise, if you have a dietary restriction and want to buy your food separately - do just that. Don't filch from your housemates thinking, 'Oh, they have plenty since they buy it in bulk'. BBC, Tips on How to Live in a Shared Household , 28th February 2003   nonentity [ non-EN-ti-tee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a person who does not have any importance 2. something that does not exist   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Since he was a nonentity, the press did not deem it necessary to solicit his views on the matter.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Unless local government ombudsmen are given some power to act I can't see the point of them existing, they seem to be a non-entity. BBC, School rejects admissions critics, 5 February 2008   sapient [ SEY-pee-uh' nt ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. sagacious, wise or shrewd 2. pertaining to or of humans viz. homo sapiens   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His sapient inputs made the presentation a success.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   As Andrei Piontkovsky, a sapient Russian commentator, points out, an alliance between Russia and China would be like one between a rabbit and a boa constrictor, with Russia as the lapine element. The Economist, The new cold what?, Sep 4th 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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