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	07-Dec-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists panoply [ PAN-uh'-plee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a splendid display 2. all the arms and armour of a warrior 3. any complete covering   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The panoply of colourful flags at the ceremony was very pleasing to the eye.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   We can utilize the panoply of sensors and detection devices and monitoring equipment and military hardware to ensure that we do not continue to be subjected to what amounts to an onslaught every single day. CNN, Pentagon weighs border deployment, May 13, 2006   recourse [ REE-kawrs, -kohrs, ri-KAWRS, -KOHRS ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the act of resorting to a person or thing for help or protection 2. the right to collect from the endorser of a negotiable instrument in case of dishonour 3. the act or instance of turning to someone for aid or security   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Since the manager dismissed him unjustly, his only recourse was to seek redress from a court of law.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The case alleges the violation of the right to judicial protection of the 233 members of the union because of the failure of the state to provide them with recourse to a wage law that was unlawfully enforced retroactively, the commission said. CNN, Human rights cases in Ecuador, Peru investigated, 2 March 2010.   avarice [ AV-er-is ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. an insatiable greed for wealth or a miserly desire to accumulate and hoard wealth 2. covetousness   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The millionaire said that his ruthlessness in business was abetted by avarice.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The book refers to him, in my words, as a great white shark, and the book describes the battle between his avarice and his higher principles. CNN, Commentary: Buffett's career a battle of greed vs. principles, 20 October 2008.   stratagem [ STRAT-uh'-juh' m ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a deceptive trick or manoeuvre used against an enemy 2. an underhanded trick devised to attain an objective   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The stratagem adopted by the Allied troops was very well researched.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In some cases the stratagem seems necessary to maintain a healthy degree of exogamy, or outbreeding. National Geographic, The Imperiled Mountain Gorilla, By Dian Fossey, July 2008   maelstrom [ MEYL-struh' m ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a powerful, turbulent whirlpool that sucks in objects within a given area of its radius 2. a violent, turbulent, tumultuous or disordered situation   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Astronomers are yet to decipher the maelstrom that occurs around a black hole.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Also, as is obvious from pictures of active galaxies such as Centaurus A, it is difficult to see into the maelstrom around the actual black hole, which is shrouded by in-falling matter. University of Oxford, Violent galaxies 'spew out' energetic cosmic rays, 7 November 2007   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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