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	18-Jul-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists anarchist [ AN-er-kist ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. an advocate of anarchy or anarchism 2. a rebel, renegade or one who can cause an upheaval or revolt   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The anarchist succeeded in his aim to lead the labourers to revolt against the land lords.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Young Israelis, some of them self-described anarchists, also take part in the protests. CNN, Palestinian despair deepens ahead of elections, February 10, 2009   arbiter [ AHR-bi-ter ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. umpire, judge or arbitrator 2. one with an authoritative and absolute power to judge   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The President is the chief arbiter of justice with the power of issuing pardons to criminals facing death rows.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The judgment subjected parliamentary action to judicial review and held that the Supreme Court was the final arbiter for testing the legality of any action The Times of India, Judicial activism a need of the hour, by Umesh Kumar Singh, 9 Apr 2007   bandy [ BAN-dee ]   [ adjective, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to trade, exchange, give and take or pass back and forth 2. (tr.v.) to hit, throw or pass back and forth 3. (adj.) bowed, bent or outwardly curved 4. (n.) a old game that resembled field hockey   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The debate was of an intense nature with repartees being bandied across the dais.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Yahoo's search operations to Microsoft - an alternative deal that has been bandied about for the past eight months. Telegraph, Yahoo! fourth-quarter loss beats forecasts, 28 Jan 2009   besmirch [ bi-SMURCH ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to dirty, soil or tarnish 2. to dishonour, stain or sully   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His favourite tactics are to besmirch the name of his adversary.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Apart from the Algerian fans, there has been little trouble to besmirch the organizers' reputations -- save for the wrong national anthem being played twice, to the annoyance of Zimbabwe and Nigeria. CNN, Tunisia goes cup final crazy, by Graham Jones, February 13, 2004   callow [ KAL-oh ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) immature or lacking experience 2. (adj.) (pertaining to a young bird) unfledged or featherless 3. (n.) a worker ant that has been hatched recently   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The callow youth was not held responsible for his actions.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   People love the legend of Owen as the handsome, slightly callow young writer whose talent was forged in the furnace of war but that is partly a myth, says Mr Hibberd. BBC, Myth and magic of Wilfred Owen, by Vincent Dowd, 4 November 2008   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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