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	09-Apr-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists commune [ v. kuh-MYOON; n. KOM-yoon ]   [ noun, intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr. v.) to converse intimately 2. (intr. v.) to be in rapport with nature 3. (n.) an interchange of ideas 4. (n.) a close-knit group of people who share common interests   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He communed with people from all walks of life making him very popular.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Most communes were disbanded years ago as China's leaders began to turn the country's planned economy into one governed by the market. BBC, Life in one of China's last communes, 29 September 2009.   genteel [ jen-TEEL  ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. well-bred or belonging to polite society 2. delicate, elegant or refined 3. tending to affected and somewhat prudish refinement   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   From the graceful manner in which he behaved, it was evident that he was of genteel birth.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A traditional country house hotel, with colonial-style furniture and ornaments and the genteel atmosphere of an Agatha Christie novel. The Telegraph, Linthwaite House, Lake Windermere: hotel review, Catalina Stogdon, 29 March 2010.   nincompoop [ NIN-kuh' m-poop, NING- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a person who is silly and weak-minded; a simpleton   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The communist nincompoops in West Bengal managed- in thirty years- to convert a prosperous state into a wasteland.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Mr Dromgoole likes to use a schoolboy lingo, designed to take the reader back to innocent times before Shakespeare was hijacked by the "bootboys" of cultural materialism and the "over-analytical nincompoops hellbent on stuffing weird intentions into the plays." The Economist, Living by Shakespeare, Mar 30th 2006   raconteur [ rak-uh' n-TUR; Fr. r*a*-kawn*-TŒR ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   one who skilfully and wittily relates anecdotes and stories   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His skills as a raconteur made him extremely popular with children.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   His fame as a writer of light, witty verse and as a raconteur was purely local until 1857, when he began writing a series of papers, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, for The Atlantic Monthly. MSN Encarta, Oliver Wendell Holmes   cormorant [ KAWR-mer-uh' nt ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. any of various, dark- coloured, web-footed water birds of the genus Phalacrocorax having a long neck and a distensible throat pouch 2. a greedy, rapacious person   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Cormorants are not found in India.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Finally we arrived at Yangshuo and I saw a wizened old man holding a pole where two black birds called cormorants were perched. CNN, Finding China in Guilin, By Marianne Bray, April 5, 2006   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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