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	25-Sep-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists sequester [ si-KWES-ter ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to separate or segregate 2. (tr.v.) to withdraw or remove 3. (law) to confiscate or take possession of temporarily 4. (intr.v.) to undergo separation or sequestration   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She was sequestered from her friends as a part of her punishment.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The country is not awash with petrodollars because the state taxes its energy earnings heavily, and sequesters its dollar takings in its central-bank reserves and its Stabilisation Fund. The Economist, A taxonomy of trouble, Oct 23rd 2008   parvenu [ PAHR-vuh'-noo, -nyoo, pahr-vuh'-NOO, -NYOO ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a person who has recently acquired a higher class by acquiring wealth, influence, or position   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Despite his many achievements, Lord Clive was regarded as a bit of a parvenu by the English aristocracy.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Where Emma boasts a parvenu, footballer's-wife-style hedonism, Lily is more PLU (People Like Us), spending to fit in socially, under the illusion that she is exercising connoisseurship and because she feels it is her due. The Telegraph, Beware Madame Bovary syndrome, 05/03/2008   mendicant [ MEN-di-kuh' nt ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a beggar; pauper 2.(n.) a member of a religious order who collects alms for a living and is forbidden to own any property or wealth 3. (adj.) begging; subsisting on alms   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The sheer number of mendicants in the city was depressing.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   To delay its repayments may send the wrong signal to the capital markets, it fears, suggesting that Thailand is a mendicant country unable to carry its debts. The Economist, Debt freeze for the tsunami-hit countries, Jan 12th 2005   maudlin [ MAWD-lin ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. tearfully or weakly emotional 2.mawkish or sentimental especially under the influence of alcohol   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The singer's maudlin love ballads made him hugely popular with women.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   One of the best impassioned outcries comes from a maudlin columnist in the Salt Lake City Tribune. Chronicles magazine, Suleymen the Murderer, by Thomas Fleming   protract [ proh-TRAKT, pruh'- ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to increase the time duration of, prolong or extend in space 2. to draw or plot to scale especially by making use of a protractor and a scale 3. (in terms of anatomy) to jut out or protrude   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The course duration was protracted from 18 months to 24 months.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Under the agreement, signed after months of protracted debate, Mugabe retained his office. CNN, Zimbabwe power-share talks resume Wednesday, October 17, 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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