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	02-May-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists emote [ i-MOHT ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to display emotion 2. to behave in a theatrical manner   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She could emote self-pity at the blink of an eye.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   On television, moist-eyed celebrities emote over their forgotten progenitors, now found to have ended their days either in the workhouse or on a throne. Telegraph, Genealogists are barking up the wrong tree, Jemima Lewis, 3 August 2008, accessed 9 July 2009   cloven [ Kloh-vuh' n ]   [ verb, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (v.) a past participle of cleave 2. (adj.) divided or split   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She set the hat upon the cloven bark of the tree.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Foot-and-mouth disease affects animals with cloven hooves, like cows, sheep and pigs, but is harmless to humans. CNN, Europe steps up foot-and-mouth battle, February 28, 2001   ebullience [ i-BUHL-yuh' ns, i-BOO' L- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   exuberance, zealous enthusiasm or exhilaration   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His ebullience made him leap before looking.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The market had basically absorbed a phase of ebullience - of people being willing to take the risk of taking on more debt. BBC, 2004: A tale of two housing markets, Sarah Toyne, 29 December 2004, accessed 9 July 2009   swill [ swil  ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a mixture of liquid and solid food used as pig feed 2. (n.) a drink of liquor 3. (n.) rubbish or nonsense 4. (tr. v.) to drink greedily 5. (tr. v.) to flood with water 6. (intr. v.) to eat or drink greedily   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The pigs on the farm were fed swill twice a day.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A is for Advertising, which at election times more than ever reminds us of George Orwell's definition of the trade: "The rattling of sticks in swill buckets." CNN, A-Z of British election issues, Robin Oakley, 20 April 2005.   pachyderm [ PAK-i-durm ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   any of the animals with thick skins, like the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The pachyderm along with its calf raided the village and destroyed most of the crops.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Quick-thinking tour guides shot the pachyderm after it charged a group of tourists in Kruger National Park. BBC, Unforgettable elephant encounter, 10 March, 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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