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	26-Dec-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists leer [ leer ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a sidelong look that indicates sly and malicious intent   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The young girl wearing a micro-mini dress and walking with a provocative gait made onlookers leer.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Most impressively, he won a role of a lifetime as The Joker, complete with a lipstick-smeared leer, in The Dark Knight, this summer's highly anticipated follow-up to 2005's Batman Begins. ABC News, Heath Ledger: A Budding Career Cut Tragically Short, By SUSAN WLOSZCZYNA, Jan. 23, 2008   eclat [ ey-KLAH; Fr. ey-kla* ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. showy display; publicity 2. brilliant performance or success 3. acclaim; renown   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci code" was received with great eclat by critics and booklovers.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   By McGonagall's own account, the poem was '... received with eclat and [he] was pronounced by the Press the Poet Laureate of the Tay Bridge...'. BBC Home : h2g2 : William McGonagall : 8th September 2000   terse [ turs ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. concise, brief, pithy and to the point 2. curt or brusque   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His terse note caused panic among the company investors.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The Brown family on Saturday issued a terse statement asking for privacy. abcNews, O.J. Simpson's Luck Runs out After 13 Years, By Dan Whitcomb, October 4, 2008   purview [ PUR-vyoo ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the extent, range or scope of authority, intention, concern or competence 2. the scope or range of vision or understanding 3. the scope or purpose of a statute or document   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The magistrate could not punish the offenders as the crime was committed beyond his judicial purview.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The separatists have little or no base in Jammu or Ladakh but they never leave these areas outside the purview of their political claims. BBC News, Who really represents Kashmiris?, By Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor, 5 September 2005   rave [ reyv ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr. v.)to speak hysterically or incoherently 2. (intr. v.)to roar 3. (tr. v.)to speak in a hysterical manner 4. (n.) the act of speaking in a hysterical manner   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The delirious old miner raved about the gold mine that he had found.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Sure, it's not the "dime on a dollar" rule of thumb for savings that I rave about, but it's a start. CNN, Clark Howard: Pinching nickels and do-it-yourself projects, Clark Howard, 1 april 2009   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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