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	13-May-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists emollient [ i-MOL-yuh' nt ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) having a softening, soothing or relaxing effect esp. on one's skin 2. (adj.) mollifying or reducing another's harshness 3. (n.) a lotion, or other agent that makes skin smooth 4. (n.) an agent that helps by mollifying or assuaging   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Aloe vera has an emollient effect and is frequently used in beauty creams.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Topically, hydrogenated vegetable oil is an amazing skin-softener, emollient, and barrier ingredient. CNN, Nine weird ingredients in makeup, By Adrienne Crezo, July 18, 2008   gaunt [ gawnt ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. thin, bony, haggard or emaciated 2. desolate, barren, grim or bleak   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He had a gaunt face with a pale complexion.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   What remains is the immensity of the sky, gaunt slopes scrubby with thistles and wild grasses, the roar of glacial torrents in dark ravines, and the powerful pull of the first gods ever feared by men. National Geographic, Once upon a time in Turkey and Georgia, blood sacrifice to the gods really mattered. People still live that way along this isolated stretch of Black Sea coast., By Erla Zwingle   epilogue [ EP-uh'-lawg, -log ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a speech or poem recited at the conclusion of a play 2. one who delivers the speech or poem at the end of a play 3. a short section appended to the conclusion of a piece of literary work like a novel   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The epilogue was set nearly nineteen years in the future.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   This victory is an epilogue in the first half of the season. CNN, Mixed reception for microchip ball`, December 17, 2007   expurgate [ EK-sper-geyt ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to remove obscene, objectionable or vulgar passages from a book 2. to purge, cleanse or rid of obscenities or morally offensive things   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The publisher expurgated the book to almost half of what it was before.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   They blamed the mounting frustrations on the failure of the entire political system and on ethical flaws in need of being expurgated root and branch. CNN, A witness to history 'Years of Renewal', By Henry Kissinger, April 29, 1999   fissure [ fish-er ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a crack, groove or cleft 2. (n.) a division, separation or schism 3. (tr.v.) to cause the formation of a crack (intr.v.) to split or cause cracking   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The fissure deepened because of the flowing rain water.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The combination of the lack of an obvious leader and the general political combustibility of the Republican Party will lead to a dangerous fissure that will plague it until the 2012 election cycle. CNN, 2009 political predictions: What will be the big story?, January 2, 2009   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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