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	28-Feb-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists cistern [ SIS-tern ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a reservoir, tank or receptacle for holding water or other liquid 2. a receptacle of natural fluid of the body 3. a tank for catching and storing rainwater   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The government planned to build a huge cistern in the catchment area to harvest rain water for the nearby village.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Lipkis and the TreePeople imagine a time when as many as a million homes and businesses have rainwater cisterns all electronically networked and ready to provide treated drinking water to the public. CNN, Cisterns save rainwater, quench environmental thirst, Gabe Ramirez, 13 August 2009.   testy [ TES-tee ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   touchy, irritable or peevish   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His testy behaviour got on everyone's nerves.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He barely survived a confirmation vote after a testy confrontation on the torture issue. CNN, Attorney general dances around waterboarding issue, January 30, 2008   strut [ struht  ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr. v.) to walk with an air of arrogance 2. (tr. v.) to show off in an attempt to impress others 3. (n.) the act of strutting   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The parents clapped after seeing their little girl strut about in her new dress.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The arrival of a new lion is always a very exciting event for staff and visitors, and we are looking forward to seeing Charlie strut his stuff here. BBC, Lion moved to join sister at zoo, 30 September 2009   transpose [ v. trans-POHZ; n. TRANS-pohz ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to interchange or reverse the order of 2. (tr. v.) to transform, transmute or transfer 3. (intr. v.) to write or perform music in a key different from the original one 4. (n.) a matrix formed by interchanging rows and columns   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The master of ceremonies transposed certain seat numbers as instructed and his family got to be seated at the table of honour during the banquet.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Police said the number was for a residence and they felt that the sniper had inadvertently transposed the last two digits of the telephone number. CNN, Police try to communicate with sniper, Jeanne Meserve and Mike Ahlers, 22 October 2002.   lampoon [ lam-POON ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) to criticize an individual or an institution through humorous writing or work of art 2. (v.) to make the subject of a lampoon   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   To lampoon George W. Bush seemed to have been a major pastime for most American journalists during his presidency.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Many cartoonists often target politicians as subjects for their lampoons. Chicago Tribune, New Yorker magazine cover, Obamas, Tribune news services, July 14, 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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