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	07-Feb-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists behemoth [ bi-HEE-muhth ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. anything which is huge and powerful 2. a very large animal   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The Boeing 797 which is purported to be the behemoth of the skies will be able to carry 1000 passengers.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Look past these admittedly daunting tasks, and the new BofA boss will preside over a potentially powerful behemoth. The Telegraph, Bank of America's hot seat could be the best job in banking, Rob Cox, 19 November 2009.   arrears [ uh'-REERS  ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the state of being late or behind 2. payment which is overdue 3. an unpaid debt or obligation   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The landlord threatened to evict the tenant if he did not pay the arrears of rent before the end of the month.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Workers disgruntled over abrupt layoffs or unpaid arrears have staged scattered protests. CNN, Chinese leaders confront economic crisis, Jaime FlorCruz, 3 March 2009.   rapier [ REY-pee-er ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a thin two-edged sword used for thrusting   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Fencing is a sport which makes use of the rapier.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The notes on these speeches are at variance on a supposed anachronism committed by Shakespeare in introducing the rapier in the time of Henry the Fourth. Google Book Results, Illustrations of Shakespeare, and of Ancient Manners, Merry Wives of Windsor, By Francis Douce   dissuasion [ di-SWEY-zhuh' n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. persuading not to do or believe something, talking someone out of a belief or an intended course of action 2. the act or instance of dissuading   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The art of dissuasion usually requires intelligence and clarity of thought.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Israel must react when it is fired upon, must re-establish its force of dissuasion and stop the rockets. BBC, Israeli leaders 'to topple Hamas', 22 December 2008   engulf [ en-GUHLF ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to swallow up or overwhelm 2. to immerse or submerge   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His sail-boat was engulfed and overturned by the waves.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A number of residents in the Riverside area of Stirling had to be rescued from their homes by raft as floodwater threatened to engulf their properties. BBC, Raft rescue as floodwaters rise, 14 December 2006 Accessed: 8th July 2009 Accessed: 8th July 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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