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	24-Feb-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists largesse [ lahr-JES, LAHR-jis ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. generosity in bestowing gifts 2. generosity of spirit or attitude   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The poor in India often depend on government largesse for their survival.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Against that backdrop of government largesse, the Federal Reserve's decision to extend a $300 billion line of credit to Fannie and Freddie on "discount" terms and the earlier $29 billion loan to facilitate the sale of Bear Stearns to J.P. Morgan Chase, should hardly come as a surprise. Chicago Tribune, Subsidizing failures has had success, By Gerald D. Skoning, July 15, 2008   conciliatory [ kuh' n-SIL-ee-uh'-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   compromising, flexible or having the intention of putting an end to a disagreement   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The conciliatory gesture made by the government was rejected by the opposition.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Obama is considered to have a more conciliatory approach to the Arab and Muslim world than Netanyahu. CNN, Iran tests new surface-to-surface missile, May 20, 2009   antecede [ an-tuh'-SEED ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to precede 2. (tr. v.) to occur before in order or rank or time   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The teacher explained that it was adolescence which anteceded adulthood and not the other way around.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The a priori methods of respectable philosophy are wholly distinct from the experimental and hypothetico-deductive methods of the natural sciences, and the results of philosophy logically antecede the empirical discoveries of science. The Oxford University Press, PASSING BY THE NATURALISTIC TURN: ON QUINE'S CUL-DE-SAC, P.M.S. Hacker, 25 November 2008.   gestate [ JES-teyt ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to carry within the womb from conception to delivery 2. (tr. v.) to conceive and develop in the mind 3. (intr. v.) the process of carrying to term 4. (intr. v.) to develop gradually   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The witch doctor knew that males gestate several days longer than females and since the chief's wife was overdue he predicted a son.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Governments can use their buying power to incubate a market which might not gestate without a large reliable customer - that's very effective. BBC, Finding solutions to business problems, 12 September 2004.   larceny [ LAHR-suh'-nee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   the unlawful taking of someone else's personal property   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Most people would agree with Mahatma Gandhi's view that European colonialism of Asian and African people was larceny perpetrated on a grand scale.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Lorello, an archives and records management specialist in the New York Department of Education, pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, and scheming to defraud and was released on his recognizance National Geographic, Archivist Charged With Stealing Papers, Selling on eBay , Clare Trapasso, January 29, 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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