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	23-Apr-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists denouement [ dey-noo-MAHN ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the final outcome, resolution or clarification esp. narrative or drama 2. the final result or outcome of a series or sequence of events   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The denouement of the war was through a treaty.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The most likely denouement now is that Nottinghamshire will do enough against Hampshire at Trent Bridge to win the silverware for the second time in four summers. BBC, Sussex batsmen frustrate Durham, 19 September 2008.   engender [ en-JEN-der ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to give rise to or bring about 2. (tr.v.) to procreate or beget 3. (intr.v.) to originate or come into being   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In every dictatorship, dissidents will tell you, there are particular sounds that engender fear. Telegraph, Turning the cameras on Burma, Adrian Blomfield, 11 July 2009   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In every dictatorship, dissidents will tell you, there are particular sounds that engender fear. Telegraph, Turning the cameras on Burma, Adrian Blomfield, 11 July 2009   forbear [ fawr-BAIR  ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to desist or abstain from 2. (tr.v.) to withhold 3. (intr.v.) to hold back or refrain from 4. (intr.v.) to be patient in the face of provocation   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   You must forbear as retaliation will only serve to add fuel to the fire.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Now they are being used as launching sites for killing Israelis -- and the "international community" wants Israel to cease fire and forbear. CNN, Tyrrell: Bravo, Condi, R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. 27 July 2006   pilfer [ PIL-fer ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to steal something small or a small quantity of 2. (tr. v.) to filch 3. (tr. v.) to steal or filch   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Every day the restaurant cashier would pilfer some cash from the till.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The quickest theft was at London Bridge railway station in south-east London, one of the busiest in the country, where an unsecured £130 bicycle was pilfered in just 17 minutes. The Telegraph, Bicycles will be stolen in under four hours, finds survey of Britain's cycle theft hotspots, Alastair Jamieson, 22 June 2009.   imbue [ im-BYOO  ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to influence thoroughly or inspire 2. to saturate with moisture or colour   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was imbued with the spirit of education and became a dedicated teacher.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Critics said part of the purpose of the projects was to take vulnerable young people off the streets and imbue them with the values of the IFE. The Telegraph, Radicals with hands on the levers of power: the takeover of Tower Hamlets, Andrew Gilligan, 28 February 2010.   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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