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	05-May-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists cull [ kuhl ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to pick or choose 2. (tr.v.) to gather, congregate or collect 3. (tr.v.) to discard or reject unwanted members from a herd or group 4. (n.) one that has been chosen esp. to be rejected   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The flowers with uneven petals were culled to be removed from the bouquets.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Agriculture Minister Michelle Gildernew has said 7,000 cattle restricted on 10 Northern Ireland farms because of dioxin contamination should be culled. BBC, Cull announced for dioxin cattle, 15 January 2009   expiation [ ek-SPEE-ey-shuh' n  ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. an act of atonement or making amends 2. the means used in order to make amends or reparations   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Justice can only be said to prevail when expiation is made to the victim.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The murders of two soldiers and a policeman in Northern Ireland in recent weeks point to a bitter truth – that it will take more than 10 or so years, a few meetings and public displays of expiation and regret to heal decades of sectarian division and hatred. Telegraph, Liam Neeson interview - on his role in 'Five Minutes of Heaven,' Craig McLean, 30 March 2009   extricate [ EK-stri-keyt ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to free from an entanglement 2. to disentangle   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   When complications arose, he extricated himself leaving others to take the blame.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He makes the point that the United States needs Arab support to properly "extricate itself" from Iraq and Afghanistan. CNN, In Israel, Obama's visits to Egypt, Saudi Arabia are center-stage, 3 June 2009.   bilious [ BIL-yuh's  ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. pertaining to or characterized by an excess secretion of bile 2. peevish, ill-humoured or cranky 3. extremely distasteful   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   After eating a handful of peanuts he was overcome by a bilious feeling.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He gorged himself habitually at the table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye with flabby cheeks. BBC, Writer's tricks - Persuading the reader, Charlotte Brontë.   jejune [  ji-JOON ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. lacking interest or importance; dull 2. having little or no nutritive value 3. childish; immature   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The jejune novel did not hold my interest.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Will audiences follow him, cheering the implicit detonation of America's institutions? Or will they find it all a bit ... jejune? CNN, EW review: 'V for Vendetta,' O for OK, Owen Gleiberman, March 17, 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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