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	02-Mar-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists quell [ kwel ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. pacify or allay 2. suppress or subdue forcibly; to end or crush down   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The army had to be called in as the police failed to quell the riotous mob.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Tony Blair last night admitted that allowing the Iran detainees to sell their stories had not been a "good idea", as he tried to quell a barrage of criticism. The Herald, Blair: We acted in good faith, but we got it wrong, By MICHAEL SETTLE, Chief UK Political Correspondent, April 11 2007   decorum [ di-KAWR-uh' m, -KOHR- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. propriety or appropriateness of conduct 2. orderliness or regularity   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She insisted on decorum being maintained at all times.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The battle against the birds is part of a wider campaign, launched in 2005, to improve the decorum of tourists and restore the image of the city, a Unesco World Heritage Site. Telegraph, Venice 'winning war against pigeons and tourists', By Nick Squires in Rome, 02 Oct 2008   unfrock [ uhn-FROK ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to take away the ecclesiastical rights or authority 2. (tr. v.) to divest   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   They said that nobody could unfrock the parish priest because his character was without reproach.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Special heresy courts could suspend or even unfrock an errant clergy. BBC, Church debates relaxing wedding rules, 9 July 2004.   insolvent [ in-SOL-vuh'nt ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) pertaining to bankruptcy 2. (adj.) unable to pay debts 3. (n.) a person who is bankrupt   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The company was declared insolvent as it could not repay its creditors.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He said he showed him bank statements suggesting he had "considerable amounts of money" but he failed to pay rent and, in 2006, was declared insolvent. The Telegraph, Oxford 'guru' accused of torturing French aristocrats, Aislinn Laing, Murray Wardrop and Henry Samuel, 11 November 2009.   mace [ meys ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a club-like armour-breaking weapon with a spiked metal head, used chiefly in the Middle Ages 2. a ceremonial staff carried by certain officials as a symbol of office 3. resembling nutmeg in flavour or a spice made by grinding the layer between a nutmeg shell and its outer husk   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Several maces from the middle ages were on display at the museum.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The mace is a silver gilt ornamental club of about five feet in length, dating from the reign of Charles II. BBC, Mace - Commons, 9 October 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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