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	24-Aug-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists pedantic [ puh'-DAN-tik ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. learned in a narrow, stodgy or ostentatious manner 2. pedestrian or unimaginative 3. pertaining or related to a pedant   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Students quickly lost interest because of the pedantic methodology employed by the teachers.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Plain English doesn't want to be too pedantic about language, although '10 items or fewer' is grammatically correct, it can sound cumbersome. BBC, When to use 'fewer' rather than 'less'?, 1 September 2008   polity [ POL-i-tee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a political organisation or form of government 2. an organisation, state, society or body that has its own governance 3. a specific or particular system or form of government   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The polity as a whole decided on how to tackle the growing threat of terrorism.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Reports say the government is keen on a discussion on the nuclear deal, which has divided the Indian polity. BBC, India parliament begins session, 15 November 2007   proviso [ pruh'-VAHY-zoh ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a conditional clause in a statute, decree or document 2. a stipulation, specification or condition   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The proviso in the will stated that yearly allowances would be paid to benefactors only if they accepted certain terms and conditions.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Under the city's transportation plan prices are required to rise by 10% plus inflation subject to the proviso it should not damage the local economy. Telegraph, Old Vic: watch a theatre transformed for Alan Ayckbourn's Norman Conquests, Sarah Crompton, 12 Dec 2008   metaphor [ MET-uh'-fawr, -fer ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a figure of speech where a word or a phrase that normally gives off a certain meaning is made to give off another indirectly which leads to an implied comparison between the two 2. an emblem or symbol 3. an object or idea that represents another   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He liked to use metaphors while speaking.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   I have tried to depict autism in the wider perspective of a metaphor, with normal parents looking for miracles to make their children extraordinary. The Times of India, A mouthful of sky for Kaushik Roy, Sarit Roy, September 7, 2007   offal [ aw-fuh' l, OF-uh' l ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. carrion or waste or inedible parts of an animal that has been butchered 2. viscera or the trimmings of a slaughtered animal removed in dressing 3. waste, rubbish or refuse   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The poorest of the poor often survive on offal discarded by the butcher.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Glynn Thompson, 45, from Weston Coyney was working at John Poynton and Sons in Cheddleton, near Leek, Staffs, when he fell into an offal pit in August 2004. BBC, Man in court over offal pit death, 18 July, 2005   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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