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	09-Jun-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists alliteration [ uh'-lit-uh'-REY-shuh' n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a repetition of the same sounds or syllables in neighbouring words 2. an instance of two or more neighbouring words in a sentence beginning with the same letter   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The verse was full of garbled alliterations.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   That album title is beginning to seem less like a clever piece of alliteration and more like a mission statement. BBC, Pussycats, where have you been?, By Mark Savage, 29 July 2008   conclave [ KON-kleyv, KONG- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a private or confidential meeting 2. a meeting of Roman Catholic cardinals to elect a new Pope 3. the place in which the Roman Catholic cardinals meet in private to elect a new pope 4. a meeting of a group or association   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   A conclave of political leaders met to discuss the treaty.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He got 508 votes in the conclave of about 700 priests, monks and lay leaders from 64 countries who gathered to chose the new patriarch. CNN, Russian church picks new head, January 27, 2009   connivance [ kuh'-NAHY-vuh' ns ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. knowledge of and tacit consent to wrongdoing by another 2. the act of conniving   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Her connivance to his act made her an accomplice.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   President Abdallahi is the victim of a coup concocted by the army with the connivance of lawmakers in parliament. abcNews, Mauritania Leader Ousted After Political Feuding, By AHMED MOHAMED and TODD PITMAN Associated Press Writers, August 6, 2008 (AP)   blasphemous [ BLAS-fuh'-muh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. impiously irreverent; profane 2. speaking, containing or exhibiting blasphemy   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His blasphemous rantings almost got him hanged.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Leading Thai politicians have called for The Beach to be banned, claiming the film is blasphemous and portrays their country as a drugs paradise. BBC, Thai MPs call for Beach ban, 9 March, 2000   cerebration [ SER-uh-brey-shuh'n ]   [ noun, intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr.v.) to use the power of reason, think or think about 2. (n.) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He often cerebrated but like any one else he was also at the mercy of his own fanciful whims.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The country is simply so much better at celebration than cerebration. Telegraph, Fear walks the streets in the home of the brave, By Jeff Randall, 15 Feb 2003   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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