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	18-Jan-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists mayhem [ MEY-hem, mey-uh' m ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. (law) an offence or crime of physically crippling, severely injuring or maiming another person 2. deliberate and needless destruction or violence 3. a state of chaos or random disorder   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Mayhem resulted as people panicked and ran helter skelter.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Alan Barlow said he told Strathclyde Police a mob of youths was causing mayhem in his street in Craigend, Glasgow, at about 0300 GMT on Saturday. BBC, Attacked man rues police response, 11 March 2009   insensible [ in-SEN-suh'-buh'l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. not capable of being emotional 2. without physical feeling   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The officer was too insensible to understand the plight of his secretary.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   If people drink themselves insensible they alone must bear responsibility for the consequences. BBC, Teenage murderer jailed for life, 25 June 2009.   hireling [ HAHY-uh'r-ling ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a person who works only for cash 2. (adj.) serving for cash only 3. (adj.) mercenary   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He sent his hirelings to threaten the poor farmers with violence if they sold their produce to anyone else.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It happens whenever any public officer who has stolen enough money to pay hirelings is brought to court. BBC, African view: Loves lost, 13 November 2009.   rasp [ rasp, rahsp ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to scrape with something rough 2. (tr. v.) to irritate of grate upon 3. (tr. v.) to speak with a grating sound 4. (intr. v.) to grate or scrape 5.(intr. v.) to make a grating sound 6. (n.) a coarse file with sharp, raised, pointed projections 7.(n.) a grating sound   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The lad said that he rasped the rust off the lawn mower for five dollars and would charge another five dollars to grease the mechanism.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Tension builds as screams and shrieks come from the undergrowth, horror-film music booms out and a woman's voice rasps "If you go down to the woods today, you'd better not go alone." The Telegraph, Thi3teen: gothic horrors in Alton Towers, Joanna Symons, 26 March 2010.   stilted [ STIL-tid ]   [ adjective, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) (architecture) having an arch begin at a distance above an impost 2. (adj.) stiff, formal or pompously dignified 3. (tr.v.) to raise or elevate on stilts   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The stilted platform was termed dangerous.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   For centuries the seminomadic Moken people have lived as hunter-gatherers, dwelling on boats or stilted dwellings along the coasts of Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand. National Geographic, Sea Gypsies of Asia Boast "Incredible" Underwater Vision, by Brian Handwerk, May 14, 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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