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	21-Nov-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists subterfuge [ SUHB-ter-fyooj ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. deception or trickery used to evade or conceal situations 2. a device or stratagem that is deceptive in nature   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Subterfuge had to be employed to continue maintaining friendly relations with neighbouring countries.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In the country's only museum dedicated to the art of subterfuge and spycraft; see everything from James Bond's Aston Martin to storage devices for cyanide. National Geographic, Best of Washington, D.C.: Must-Dos   succulent [ SUHK-yuh'-luh 'nt ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) juicy or filled with sap 2. (adj.) rich, vigorous or interesting 3. (adj.) (of a plant) having fleshy and thick tissues that are capable of storing water 4. (n.) a plant that is succulent   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The succulent pear is considered to be a delicacy.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Check soft succulent leaves of your bedding plants for caterpillar damage. BBC, Tokely's Tips: August 2006, By Andrew Tokely   supercilious [ soo-per-SIL-ee-uh's ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   haughty, arrogant or disdainfully contemptuous   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Her supercilious attitude lost her many friends.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   I shudder to watch interviewers who think it clever to be snide, supercilious, or downright offensive. BBC, Tributes to Sir Robin Day, 8 August, 2000   supplant [ suh'-PLANT, -PLAHNT ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to supersede or usurp one's place by trickery or plotting 2. to uproot, displace or substitute   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The general tried to supplant the king by planning a military coup.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   David Miliband, the man who is thought to want to supplant Gordon Brown at 10, Downing Street, leaves the Labour Party conference as damaged goods, largely caused by self-inflicted wounds. The Herald, Labour analysis: Miliband suffers setback   constituent [ kuh' n-Stich-oo-uh' nt ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a component or an important part 2. (n.) one who is part of a constituency 3. (n.) one who can authorize another to vote or act on behalf of himself or herself 4. (n.) an element that is part of a grammatical construction 5. (adj.) one who is empowered to vote or appoint 6. (adj.) one who has the authority to revise a constitution 7. (adj.) composing or forming something   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Milk is a constituent of a healthy breakfast.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   His mobile phone and Blackberry were seized and his Parliamentary email account - used by many of his 75,000 constituents to communicate with their MP - had been suspended. Telegraph, Public leaks were just tip of the iceberg, By Robert Winnett, 28 Nov 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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