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	03-Feb-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists atavism [ AT-uh'-viz-uh'm ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the reappearance of characteristics of some remote ancestor, in an individual, that have been absent for some generations 2. a throwback or a reversion to an earlier type   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The proud father explained to his wife that the sixth toe on the left foot of their baby was due to atavism.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Murray is neither sentimental nor whimsical when he writes about this atavism on the edge of our world; as a Hebridean native himself, he understands the culture as a living and changing thing, mourning the loss of people first, and folk-ways only in as much as they form part of a holistic system. The Telegraph, The Guga Hunters by Donald S Murray - review, Will Self, 26 November 2008.   carcinogenic [ kahr-suh'-nuh'-JEN-ik ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. any substance that tends to cause or produce cancer 2. a cancerous agent   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The government banned the use of DDT as a pesticide after tests proved that it had carcinogenic properties.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Packs of the product, brought to the UK from China, have had a new English label put on to hide the original label which contained the Chinese symbols for Aristolochia, a banned toxic and carcinogenic plant derivative. The Telegraph, Recalled Chinese medicine still on sale, 30 March 2010.   raze [ reyz ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. destroy, demolish or tear down 2. (archaic) to erase, scrape off or shave off   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The illegal constructions were razed to the ground.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   New York's original Pennsylvania Station, a similarly grand, classically-inspired structure, was razed in 1964. CNN, Washington's Union Station celebrates 100 years, October 2, 2008   grisly [ GRIZ-lee ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. horrible, frightful, gruesome or ghastly 2. grim or formidable   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The grisly nature of the murder sent shockwaves through the local community.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   An ancient skeleton excavated from Stonehenge has revealed a grisly execution at the famous site. BBC, Stonehenge execution revealed, 9 June, 2000   hew [ hyoo ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to fell with an axe 2. (tr.v.) to deliver blows with a sharp instrument 3. (intr.v.) to cut by striking with a sharp instrument 4. (intr.v.) to obey the rules   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He hewed down the tree with a mighty stroke.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   I have imagined how satisfying it might be just to walk into the forest with only a rifle and an axe, hew out logs for a rough shack and, by courage and cleverness make a life. BBC, State Of The Union: Changes in the high country, Charles Gusewelle, 4 October 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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