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	08-Apr-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists highbrow [ HAHY-brou ]   [ noun, verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a person who has or affects a highly cultivated and intellectual taste 2. (v.) of, relating to or being intellectual or cultivated   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Lawrence Durrell's highbrow tetralogy "The Alexandra Quartet" is widely regarded as one of the most important novels of the twentieth century.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   THE post-apocalyptic seems to be all the rage with readers of novels and short stories, both highbrow and low. The Economist, Prize-winning fiction:Apocalypse now, Jul 10th 2008   ensconce [ en-SKONS ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to conceal, hide or secure snugly 2. to settle or place in a snug or comfortable manner   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She was ensconced in a snug tweed jacket.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Appropriately enough, Brother Claus spent much of his life ensconced in an Alpine cave in solitary reflection. Economist, Pilgrims in Rhineland, Jan 14th 2009   arboreal [ ahr-BAWR-ee-uh' l, -BOHR- ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. treelike or pertaining to trees 2. living in or inhabiting trees   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He preferred arboreal living and hence preferred to live in a tree-house.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A 121-million-year-old baby arboreal bird, fossilised while still curled in its egg, has been found in China, Science magazine reports this week. BBC, Feathered embryo found in China, 21 October, 2004   caucus [ KAW-kuhs ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a meeting or congregation of members of a party within a certain legislative body held in order to select the leaders and determine strategy 2. (n.) a meeting organized in order to foster a special cause 3. (intr.v.) to take part in or hold a caucus 4. (tr.v.) to assemble in a caucus   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   A caucus was held to discuss the candidate's suitability for the post of Deputy Chief Minister.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The difference between a caucus and the primaries that most states favour is that to take part in a caucus you have to take part in person – you have to devote a whole evening to the process. BBC, Welcome to the caucus circus, David Grossman, 3 January 2008.   torque [ tawrk ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) something that causes rotation 2. (tr. v.) to produce rotation 3. (tr. v.) to apply rotation to 4. (intr. v.) to rotate or turn   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The engineer set the power brakes according to the maximum torque generated by the motor.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Prior models assumed one of two things: that the torque - the power in rotation - was applied at its maximum from the backswing, or that it ramped up throughout the swing, reaching its maximum at the point of impact. BBC, Golf secret not all in the wrists, Jason Palmer, 4 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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