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	09-Feb-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists ephemeral [ ih-FEM-er-uh'l  ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) short-lived or transitory 2. (adj.) lasting but one day 3. (adj.) lasting only for a very short time 4. (n.) anything short-lived   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   It was a cynic who said that everything about life was ephemeral except death.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   His protagonist, a boy, tries to embrace Buddhism as a hedge against a world he sees as ephemeral. The Telegraph, JD Salinger, 28 January 2010.   rambunctious [ ram-BUHNGK-shuh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   excessively boisterous; difficult to handle   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The famous band put on an unforgettable performance in front of thousand of their rambunctious fans.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Its rambunctious atmosphere was captured by Emile Zola in his 1873 novel Le Ventre de Paris (The Belly of Paris). CNN, Central Paris treasure awaits discovery, By Mark Tungate, July 17, 2008   empirical [ em-PIR-i-kuh' l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. derived from experience or by observation 2. verifiable by experiment 3. based on observation and experience only   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   All hypotheses need to be supported by empirical data.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In an empirical study, the team took 32 tiger pugmark tracings from two different substrates of four captive tigers in the Mysore zoo. National Geographic, Faulty Counts May Have Hurt India Tigers, Experts Say, Pallava Bagla, 7 August 2003, accesed 9 July 2009   podiatrist [ puh'-DAHY-uh'-trist ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a person qualified to diagnose and treat foot disorders 2. a foot doctor   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was not a podiatrist but was very knowledgeable about treating foot ailments.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Ms Jones, a practising podiatrist, said seven times as much pressure was put on the ball of a foot by someone wearing high heels. The Telegraph, High heels 'should be banned at work', 15 September 2009.   totter [ TOT-er  ]   [ noun, intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr. v.) to stagger or walk unsteadily or sway as if about to fall 2. (intr. v.) to seem about to collapse 3. (n.) the act of staggering or walking with an unsteady gait   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   One of the workers tottered and collapsed under the weight of the bricks he was carrying.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Their backs are bent, and they stagger and totter along with the weight of their packs. BBC, Schools Curriculum Bites, 12 April 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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