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	10-Sep-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists petty [ PET-ee ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. trivial or insignificant 2. minor or of little or no importance 3. narrow-minded or small-minded 4. mean in trifling matters   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Petty cash was found lying around the house.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Rodrigues of the Teamworks program said giving parents a place to do petty complaining only "opens up a can of worms." CNN, Rhode Island proposal: Youth sports oversight, or overreach?, By Kara Yates and Robyn Sidersky CNN, March 6, 2009   sanctimonious [ sangk-tuh'-MOH-nee-uh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   feigning piety or pretending to be holy or righteous   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His sanctimonious attitude was overbearing to many people.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Salman Rushdie denounced Germaine Greer as a "philistine, sanctimonious, and disgraceful, but it is not unexpected" over her support for the Brick Lane activists. BBC, Housing slump hits Shanghai owners, By Chris Hogg BBC News, Shanghai, 4 March 2009   poncho [ PON-choh ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a square or rectangular piece of cloth with a hole in the centre for the head- used as a cloak   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She adjusted her poncho before swinging onto the back of her horse.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   As I entered company after company, each promising slight variations of alternate treks for drastically different prices, I nearly hung up my poncho and headed home. CNN, So you missed the Inca Trail? A guide to alternate treks, Rachel Barth, 28 May 2008.   prostrate [ PROS-treyt ]   [ adjective, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to lay face down on the ground 2. (tr. v.) to reduce to exhaustion or physical weakness 3. (adj.) laying flat on the ground facing down 4. (adj.) completely depressed or disconsolate   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The villagers prostrated themselves before the deity to show their reverence.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The 70 million population figure produced by the Office of National Statistics has become a totem before which all politicians are expected to prostrate themselves. BBC, Alan Johnson challenged by immigration officer, 10 February 2010.   misogamist [ mi-SOG-uh'-mee, mahy- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   one who hates marriage   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Historians are still unable to unearth the reason why Alexander the Great was such a fierce misogamist.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Arthur is transformed into an indecisive politician, a neurotic military genius, or an embittered misogamist. BBC, h2g2 - Rex Futurus   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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