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	10-Feb-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists malevolent [ muh'-LEV-uh'-luh' nt ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. having or displaying ill-will, hatred; disposed to causing harm or evil to others; malicious 2. having an evil, malicious influence   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His malevolent attitude towards those who were more successful revealed a very mediocre character.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   With his scraggly matted hair, chalky-white scarred face, smudged raccoon eyes and drunkenly-applied blood-red lipstick -- all the more disturbing when worn with a neat shirt, tie and vest -- Ledger seemed to have tapped into his darkest, deepest demons, only to channel them back into a malevolent anti-hero. ABC News, Ledger Frightening in Final Role in "Dark Knight", By Iain Blair June 30, 2008   alliteration [ uh'-lit-uh'-REY-shuh' n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a repetition of the same sounds or syllables in neighbouring words 2. an instance of two or more neighbouring words in a sentence beginning with the same letter   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The verse was full of garbled alliterations.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   That album title is beginning to seem less like a clever piece of alliteration and more like a mission statement. BBC, Pussycats, where have you been?, By Mark Savage, 29 July 2008   entice [ en-TAHYS ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   to allure, tempt or attract by exciting hope   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The offer of a special discount enticed her to join the club.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Members of a Native American group based in a remote part of Arizona are hoping to entice more tourists by inviting visitors to step off the edge of the Grand Canyon. National Geographic, Grand Canyon's Glass Walkway to Open Next March, Anne Minard in Grand Canyon West, Arizona for National Geographic News, December 15, 2006   quaver [ KWEY-ver ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr. v.) to shake or quiver; tremble 2. (intr. v./tr. v.) to speak or sing in a trembling voice 3. (intr. v.) to produce trills, on a musical instrument or while singing 4. (n.) a trill 5. (n.) a shaky or quavering utterance or sound 6. (n.) (music) an eighth note   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The young, inexperienced pastor took a quick glance at the large congregation before standing up with a quaver.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Every conversation we have carries a subtext that would be invisible to someone reading its script: the uptilt to a question, the long sneer of sarcasm, or the quaver of uncertainty. ABC News, How Voice Tone Can Often Trump Words - Evolving Science of Vocal Tones Catches Up to What Baby Knows, By Mary Wiltenburg, Feb. 13   abysmal [ uh'-BIZ-muh'l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1.very bad, 2.severe or wretched unfathomable, profound or bottomless   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The abysmal performance of the team was criticised.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A leading Aslef official claimed trains travelling through the main line tunnel into Wales had to slow down, signals were worse and tracks were "abysmal". BBC, MPs told Severn Tunnel is 'hole', 25 November 2008   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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