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	28-Dec-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists demagogue [ DEM-uh'-gog, -gawg ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a person or leader who appeals to the prejudices or passions of the people to gain power 2. (n.) in ancient times, a leader who champions the cause of the masses 3. (intr. v.) to speak or behave like a demagogue 4. (tr. v.) to treat an issue like a demagogue; obscure an issue with prejudice, emotions, etc.   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was an effective demagogue and succeeded in uniting the workers in order to demand for better working conditions.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Self confident and energetic, O'Connor was a charismatic demagogue, who used mass meetings and the widely read 'Northern Star' to unite the forces of the working class behind him. BBC, The Chartist Movement 1838 - 1848, By Stephen Roberts   truism [ TROO-iz-uh'm ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a cliché or an obvious truth   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She liked to include truisms in her speech.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It seems almost as a truism, which everyone who cares for the value of openness deems to be self-evident. Oxford, Are Network Neutralists Legal Positivists? (Part I), by Marcelo Thompson, June 12th, 2008   tentative [ TEN-tuh'-tiv ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. experimental, provisional or implemented as a trial 2. hesitant, unsure or uncertain   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The doctor performed a tentative check-up to check the man's fitness.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   There are tentative signs of a new gold rush in the US, according to the Gold Prospectors Association of America (GPAA). BBC, Tentative signs of US gold rush, 9 April 2009   recluse [ REK-loos, ri-KLOOS ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) person who lives in isolation 2. (adj.) living in isolation 3. (adj.) pertaining to isolation   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Children were afraid of the recluse who lived in the cottage surrounded by overgrown hedges.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The 55-year-old, known as Charles, was a recluse who had lived in a flat above the warehouse for many years. BBC, Greed and lies caught up with killer, Cris Summers, 7 September 2009   dutiful [ DOO-tuh'-fuh'l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. characterized by performing one's duty or doing what is expected 2. proceeding from a sense of obligation   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She was a dutiful wife whose only concern seemed to be her children and husband.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In place of dutiful suffering, responsibility and sacrifice, they were hungry for a measure of individual self-fulfilment. BBC, The crisis of the mediocre marriage, 11 January 2010.   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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