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	20-Apr-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists encumbrance [ en-KUHM-bruh' ns ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a hindrance or burden 2. a dependent, like a child 3. (law) a mortgage or claim against property   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Cohabiting allows you to road-test your potential victim without the encumbrance of life-long commitment. BBC, Katie Hopkins' guide to family life, 17 August 2007   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Cohabiting allows you to road-test your potential victim without the encumbrance of life-long commitment. BBC, Katie Hopkins' guide to family life, 17 August 2007   notoriety [ noh-tuh'-RAHY-i-tee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. infamy 2. the quality of being widely known   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His notoriety was due to the fact that he was a strong leader of the gang.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Such talk usually emerges after a particularly questionable decision which receives undue notoriety. The Telegraph, Keir Starmer says Tory plans to scrap Human Rights Act would bring shame on Britain, Christopher Hope, 21 Octobe 2009.   expeditious [ ek-spi-DISH-uh's  ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. quick, immediate or characterized by promptness 2. acting with speed and efficiency   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The company was able to increase its profit margin by 50% due to the expeditious manner in which the projects were implemented.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   We're going to continue to provide support as we do in every instance like this to American citizens who have been charged and hope that this matter can be resolved in an expeditious way, but it is something that a sovereign nation is pursuing based on the evidence that it presented when the charges were announced. CNN, U.S. missionaries sent to separate Haitian prisons; no ruling on bail, 5 February 2010.   nostrum [ NOS-truh' m ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a favourite scheme for solving social and political problems 2. a medicine whose ingredients are a secret and its effectiveness is unproved   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The nostrum for cough sold by roadside quacks can have unpleasant side effects.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   And it came from the astonishing nostrum that a liberal, black first-term senator could overturn the biggest machine, the biggest name and the biggest dynasty in Democratic party politics. ABC News, Wedding Flowers for GMA Couple, June 12   incubate [ in-kyuh-beyt ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to hatch 2. (tr. v.) to ponder slowly and protectively, as if hatching 3. (intr. v.) to undergo the process of hatching   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Premature babies have to be given protective care so that they can incubate safely.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The town is situated on the acclivity of a hill extending along the right bank of the river Ovoca, and on the mail coach road from Dublin to Wexford. BBC, Day care centres breed 'superbugs', 16 September 2000.   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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