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	18-Apr-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists gaunt [ gawnt ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. thin, bony, haggard or emaciated 2. desolate, barren, grim or bleak   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He had a gaunt face with a pale complexion.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   What remains is the immensity of the sky, gaunt slopes scrubby with thistles and wild grasses, the roar of glacial torrents in dark ravines, and the powerful pull of the first gods ever feared by men. National Geographic, Once upon a time in Turkey and Georgia, blood sacrifice to the gods really mattered. People still live that way along this isolated stretch of Black Sea coast., By Erla Zwingle   chattel [ CHAT-l ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a slave or bondman 2. an object or article among one's movable personal property   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The chattel followed his overlord to London.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   They had occupied his people's land, and in his words made them a "race of no rights beyond those of chattel." CNN, Mugabe: Africa's 'lasting connection'?, By CNN's Charlayne Hunter-Gault, March 13, 2002   ambrosial [ am-BROH-zhuh' l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. divine or fit for worthy of the Gods 2. extremely pleasant, delicious or fragrant   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The critics praised the ambrosial food.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Go and plunge yourself into the calm sea of spiritual solitude, and wash your soul in the nectar of ambrosial meditation. The Times of India, SACRED SPACE: Spiritual Solace, 24 Mar 2005   vacillation [ vas-uh'-LEY-shuh'n ]   [ noun, intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) movement which is not steady 2. (n.) the state of hesitation or indecision 3. (intr. v.) to sway from one side to another   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   After days of fearful vacillation, he finally decided to stand witness against the mafia.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   After years of vacillation, Philip II of Spain, the most powerful monarch in the world had embarked finally on war with Elizabeth. BBC, A Short History of Ireland, 5 October 2009   rakish [ REY-kish ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. dashing, jaunty or stylish 2. suggestive of speed or having a trim, streamlined appearance 3. dissolute, immoral or having the character of a rake   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The girls were not impressed by his outlandish costume and psychedelic hat which he wore at a rakish angle.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The Merry Muses of Caledonia finds Burns at his bawdiest, and he was often plagued by romantic, financial and rakish complications. BBC, Robert Burns 1759-1796,   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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