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	22-Feb-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists mountebank [ MOUN-tuh'-bangk ]   [ noun, intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) one who, in a public place or from a platform, tells audiences stories and tricks them into buying quack medicines from himself or herself 2. (n.) a charlatan, boastful pretender or quack 3. (intr.v.) to operate, behave or act like a charlatan or mountebank   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The mountebank was arrested by the police on charges of selling drugs without prescriptions.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It somehow comes as no surprise to discover that this prince of mountebanks was also a close friend of the Duke of Windsor. Telegraph, John Brinkley, the goat-gland quack, Mike Dash, 16 Apr 2008   disabuse [ dis-uh-byooz ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to free from error or misconception 2. (tr. v.) to free from falsehood   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The lawyer successfully disabused the witness of her confidence in her statement as a witness.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   His conversation was always instructive but never pedantic; his taste was as accurate as it was, at times, licentious; his appetite refined and insatiable; his humour at once generous and disabused. The Telegraph, Victor Arwas, 2 May 2010.   seraphic [ si-RAF-ik ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. pure or angelic 2. of or pertaining to an angel or seraph   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Her seraphic appearance fooled everyone.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In response I gave a smile of seraphic serenity. The Times of India, Desibel power, JUGULAR VEIN/JUG SURAIYA, 18 Apr 2004   inalienable [ in-EYL-yuh'-nuh'-buh' l, -EY-lee-uh'- ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   inviolable, inherent, basic or unassailable   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His claim to his family's holdings was inalienable.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   According to IRNA, the Iranian president told the French interviewer that his country's nuclear activities are legal, "based on the country's legal and inalienable rights" and that the program would "continue without hesitation." CNN, Ahmadinejad rejects U.N. sanctions, March 25, 2007   waft [ waft, wahft  ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to propel or cause to move gently on a buoyant medium 2. (intr.v.) to float or drift gently esp. on the air 3. (n.) one, like sound or odour, that can be perceived faintly   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   We got the waft of the cake even through the closed door.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The aroma of freshly baking flatbread wafts through the air as a unit of British soldiers position themselves for a quick patrol around the village of Sindh Kalay. CNN, British Army builds mock Afghan village in English countryside, By Atika Shubert CNN, July 2, 2009   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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