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	06-Apr-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists animosity [ an-uh'-MOS-i-tee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   enmity, hostility or bitter hatred   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The animosity between the two warring clans has cost the lives of many people.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Traditional animosity towards ethnic Vietnamese has reached fever pitch during Cambodia's election campaign. BBC, Playing the Vietnamese card, 25 July, 1998   blotch [ bloch ]   [ noun, verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) an irregular patch or blot 2. (n.) a blemish or discoloured patch on the skin 3. (v.) to mark with a blot or to be marked with spots   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She asked the surgeon if he could remove the unsightly blotch on the side of her neck.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, said four of his employees suffered from "some strange maladies" in December, including "red blotches on their skin" and watery eyes for a few hours after opening the irradiated mail. CNN, Congress takes new steps to minimize mail risk, 6 February 2002.   expatriate [ Brit., eks-PA-tree-eyt; v. eks-PEY-tree-eyt adj., n. eks-PEY-tree-it ]   [ adjective, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) exiled or banished 2. (n.) one who has been exiled or banished 3 (tr.v.) to banish one from one's native country 4. (tr.v.) to withdraw oneself from one's native land   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The expatriate prince lived in London.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He bought most of the land with money he earned in Saudi Arabia as an expatriate worker, like many others in his village. CNN, Floods devastate rice Bangladesh rice fields, November 28, 1998   turmoil [ TUR-moil ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the state of confusion 2. a great disturbance   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The little town was in turmoil when the gangs took to fighting with each other over territory rights.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The UN mission to Afghanistan has been in turmoil since Mr Eide, the senior diplomat, and his deputy, Peter Galbraith, rowed over how to deal with an election apparently riddled with pro-Karzai fraud. The Telegraph, Afghanistan opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah questions UN neutrality, Ben Farmer, 3 October 2009   orientation [ awr-ee-uh'n-TEY-shuh'n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the act or process of adjusting 2. an introduction 3. an awareness of the objective world in relation to one's self 4. the ascertainment of one's position in relation to the surroundings   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The new recruits had to undergo an orientation process during the first week of their employment.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Earthquake shaking is a complex process and the chain of causation from earthquake source magnitude through infrastructural damage to human harm involves factors like the type of earthquake fault, its orientation, the hardness of bedrock or presence of wet soil, and so on. CNN, Why Haiti's quake toll higher than Chile's, Colin Stark, 28 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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