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	14-Mar-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists actuary [ AK-choo-er-ee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a registrar or clerk who computes premium rates, dividends, risks etc. 2. statistician who computes insurance premiums and risks   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He worked as an actuary in an insurance firm.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The government actuary reviews the fund every three years. BBC, Taxpayer boost to MP pensions gap, 31 March 2006.   pogrom [ puh'-GRUHM, -GROM, poh- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   an organized massacre of helpless people esp. those of jews   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The holocaust against Jews during world war II was the most ghastly pogrom ever witnessed by mankind.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The first pogrom is often considered to be the 1821 anti-Jewish riots in Odessa (modern Ukraine) after the death of the Greek Orthodox patriarch in Istanbul, in which 14 Jews were killed. Wikipedia, Pogrom   sonnet [ SON-it  ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a rhapsody 2. (n.) a poem properly expressive of a single, complete thought of 14 lines   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He has the entire collection of Shakespeare's sonnets.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Writing for children is like the difference between writing a sonnet and writing a gossip column. CNN, 'Wicked' author Gregory Maguire returns to Oz, Jacque Wilson, 4 November 2008.   elope [ ih-LOHP  ]   [ intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to secretly run off with a lover with the intention of getting married 2. to abscond 3. to leave without permission   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The couple eloped and got married because the boy's parents did not approve of the girl's ethnicity.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Taliban gunmen executed a young couple for trying to elope in rural Afghanistan, a local police chief told CNN Tuesday. CNN, Police: Taliban executes eloping lovers, 14 April 2009.   perspicuous [ per-SPIK-yoo-uh's  ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. expressing oneself clearly and effectively 2. easy to understand 3. expressed or presented in a lucid manner   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The people complemented the preacher on his perspicuous discourse.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It was not because Latin is easier and more perspicuous than Greek that it was to become the lingua franca of civilized Europe, but because the ancient Romans were Top Nation. The Telegraph, No one speaks the language, 9 February 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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