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	27-Sep-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists janus-faced [ JEY-nuh' s-feyst ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. having two faces, one of them looking towards the future while the other towards the past, like the deity janus 2. deceiving by hiding one's true intentions and feelings behind a pretence or show of something else; two faced 3. marked by or concerned with contrasting ideas, aspects or polarities   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The government's Janus-faced budget- providing incentives for foreign direct investment while at the same time increasing taxes on consumer products- depressed consumer spending.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Commenting on "Pakistan's Janus-faced approach in matters relating to terrorism", it noted the British prime minister's expression of "his firm view that terrorism cannot solve the Kashmir issue and that the two countries should sort it out peacefully". BBC, Newspapers welcome Blair, 7 January 2002   insolent [ in-suh'-luh' nt ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. proud, disrespectful or impudent 2. overbearing or arrogant 3. one who is insolent   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The boy's insolent replies infuriated his teacher.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Bush, the dwarf, has surprised us again with his insolent statement, accusing countries which have suffered from the aggressive, arrogant policy of his country, said Babel, run by President Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday. Telegraph, Iraqi press throws insults at Bush, 02 Feb 2002   despondent [ di-SPON-duh' nt ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. sad, hopeless or dejected 2. discouraged or disheartened   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was despondent after faring poorly in the engineering entrance examinations.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   At its worst, during late May and early June, dozens of despondent travelers were contacting me every day for help with their paperwork. CNN, Seven lessons learned from the summer of 2007, By Christopher Elliott , August 31, 2007   parody [ PAR-uh'-dee ]   [ noun, verb ]   MEANING :   (n.)1. a comical imitation of some serious literary work or of the style of a writer, artist, or genre (v.) to produce a parody of   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His hilarious parody of George Orwell's Animal Farm, brought the house down.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The news story was written as a parody of legislative and school board attacks on the teaching of evolution in New Mexico. National Geographic, April Fools' Special: History's Hoaxes, By John Roach, April 1, 2003   simian [ SIM-ee-uh'n ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) pertaining to or characteristic of a monkey or an ape 2. (n.) a monkey, primate or ape   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His simian facial features made him stand out in a crowd.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The marauding simian that gave residents of Kamakshipalya sleepless nights last week, attacked two more victims on Monday night: Anil Kumar, a youth who was sleeping outside his house in BDA Layout, was bit by the monkey in the thigh. The Times of India, Monkey business: Act III, 17 Mar 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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