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	30-Nov-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists tenuous [ TEN-yoo-uh's ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. slender, thin or fine 2. having a low consistency 3. flimsy, shaky or weak   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The king lost the tenuous hold he had over his kingdom.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It came days after a tenuous week-old U.N.-brokered cease-fire between rebels and government forces fell apart. CNN, Congo refugees brave rebels rather than stay in camps, November 2, 2008   sleight [ slahyt ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. skill, flair or dexterity 2. craftiness, artifice, trickery or cunning stratagem   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The sleight displayed by the killer made the detectives suspect him to be a surgeon.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   For a while, the disappearance of an executive bonus restriction from last month's economic stimulus looked like sleight of hand worthy of a Las Vegas stage. abcNews, Dodd: Administration Sought Bonus Limit Revision, By JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press Writer, March 18, 2009   rant [ rant ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr. v.) to speak in a heated or aggressive manner 2. (tr. v.) to speak with aggressiveness 3. (n.) an aggressive speech   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He ranted about the unfairness of the new regulations which affected only the lower class.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Officials at the game's ruling body issued the warning after launching an investigation into Kinnear's astonishing, X-rated rant at journalists during a press conference a fortnight ago. The Telegraph, Newcastle manager Joe Kinnear warned by FA over his foul-mouthed rant, Rob Stewart, 14 October 2008   egregious [ i-GREE-juh' s, -jee-uh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. flagrant; glaringly bad or offensive 2. (archaic) eminent; distinguished   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The critic's insulting and egregious remarks left the actor with no option but to file a suit for defamation.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He found Irving's arguments - and by extension the claims of deniers in general - to be 'perverse and egregious'. BBC, Denying The Holocaust, By Deborah Lipstadt   thrall [ thrawl ]   [ noun, adjective, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a slave or serf 2. (n.) bondage, slavery or servitude 3. (n.) one who has been morally or intellectually dominated or enslaved 4. (tr.v) to enslave 5. (adj.) enslaved   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He hated the life of a thrall and wished for freedom.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The launch of a chart for musical ring tones suggests we remain in thrall to the mobile phone. BBC, Quiz: Are you a mobile phones geek?, 1 June, 2004   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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