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	28-Mar-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists libertine [ LIB-er-teen, -tin ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a person who lives without moral restraint 2. a person who is a freethinker   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Feudal, conservative societies offer no place to a libertine.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The two brothers, the zealot and the libertine, dominate Coll's epic account of the wealthy Saudi Arabian family whose construction industry fortune was amassed by their father, Mohamed. ABC News, Blood Brothers: Could Osama Have Been Tamed?, By MARCUS BARAM, April 3, 2008   voluminous [ vuh'-LOO-muh'-nuh's ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. bulky or having a large size or volume 2. ample, sufficient or full 3. winding or having a large number of coils 4. lengthy or filling a large volume or a large number of volumes   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The voluminous fold of her skirt dragged behind her.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Giggling, he helps me fold and pin my voluminous headscarf under it. BBC, Southern Iraq diary: Basra, 17 March, 2004   touchstone [ TUHCH-stohn ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1.(n.) a criterion, test or standard to measure quality or genuineness 2. (n.) a black, siliceous stone that was priorly used to test the purity of gold 3. (adj.) basis or a quintessential or an important feature   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The checks failed as none of the important touchstones were achieved.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Pay has been the touchstone issue of the financial crisis. Economist, The revolution within,May 14th 2009.   subdue [ suh'b-DOO, -DYOO  ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to overpower 2. to overcome by force or persuasiveness 3. to exercise restrain or moderation   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   When Charles was overcome by an epileptic fit, we subdued him by holding him down.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The arresting agent told Sutton that Daniel Boyd attempted "to acquire his side arm," and that Dylan Boyd "failed to comply with their instruction and had to be subdued." CNN, No bail for 'jihad' suspects despite judge's skepticism, Mike Ahlers, 5 august 2009   tactile [ TAK-til, -tahyl ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. pertaining to or characterized by the sense of touch 2. perceptible to the touch 3. tangible   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The author's tactile description of the setting was so vivid and lifelike that the reader would invariably get involved in the story.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   My background was in making buildings accessible to people with various disabilities, and part of that involved creating tactile diagrams of floor plans and emergency routes for visually-impaired people. BBC, Beatrix Potter characters remodelled for blind children, Neil Prior, 1 February 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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