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	14-Apr-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists alleviate [ uh'-LEE-vee-eyt ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   to relieve, assuage or mitigate esp. pain   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Headaches are alleviated by painkillers.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A therapy that boosts the creation of neurons may alleviate some memory problems. CNN, How memories form, fade, and persist over time, By Elizabeth Landau CNN, January 28, 2009   succor [ SUHK-er ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) help or assistance 2. (n.) a person who gives help 3. (tr. v.) to help   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was a kind man and would always succor the needy.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   DeLay runs a tightly ordered House, where conquered Democrats are not offered succor. CNN, Inside Politics: Robert Novak: Criminalized politics, 14 October 2004   anthropoid [ AN-thruh'-poid ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) resembling the outward appearance of humans 2. (adj.) apelike or characteristic of an ape 3. (n.) an ape belonging to the Pongidae family   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The students were told to study the anthropoid fossils in the laboratory and then write a thesis on evolution.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Researchers from the University of Oslo have suggested the specimen, which was found 95 per cent complete, may be the root of anthropoid evolution, when primates were first developing the features that would evolve into our own. The Telegraph, Ida the 'missing link': fossil of man's earliest ancestor goes on display, 26 May 2009.   ineffectual [ in-i-FEK-choo-uh'l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. insufficient to produce a desired or satisfactory result 2. pointless or futile 3. powerless, impotent or useless   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The ineffectual action taken by the government in dealing with unruly and antisocial elements was deplored by people.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Right now the weak and ineffectual Afghan government is in no position to negotiate with the Taliban, other than to make significant concessions of either territory or principle, or both. CNN, Commentary: Deals with Taliban could be dangerous, Peter Bergen, 9 March 2009.   fallible [ FAL-uh-buh' l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (of persons) very likely to make a mistake or be misled 2. likely to be erroneous, faulty or false   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Since we humans are fallible, we have not yet succeeded in building a perfect world.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The final Test in Adelaide (next week) will be a cliffhanger because the Indians have now smelt blood and know this Australian team is fallible. Khaleej Times, Controversies got to Aussies: Inzy, 20 January 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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