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	21-Apr-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists furor [ FYOO'R-awr ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a general disorder or general commotion 2. violent anger 3. a public outburst of excitement or ecstasy or a state of intense enthusiasm 4. a craze or fad. (Also, especially British, furore)   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The poison pen letters circulating the campus created a furor among the students and had to be suppressed.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The ongoing foreclosure spectacle in the US, and the public furor it has stoked, probably won't help Mozilo's case. The Telegraph, Wheels of justice could grind Countrywide's Mozilo, Robert Cyran, 15 May 2009.   apostate [ uh'-POS-teyt, -tit ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) one who has forsaken or abandoned one's religion, faith, party or cause 2. (adj.) pertaining to or characterised by apostasy   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was termed an apostate, for having forsaken his religion and his family in order to remarry.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The attacks began Saturday after a prominent Egyptian media commentator denounced a Baha'i activist in a television appearance as an "apostate" and called for her to be killed. abcNews, Groups: Villagers Attack Homes of Baha'is in Egypt, By MAGGIE MICHAEL Associated Press Writer, April 2, 2009   valiant [ VAL-yuh'nt  ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) possessing courage 2. (adj.) marked by bravery 3. (n.) a courageous person   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The novel was about the crusades and the valiant battles that were fought by the knights.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Barbara and I were deeply saddened to learn Ted Kennedy lost his valiant battle with cancer. CNN, Obama calls Kennedy 'greatest U.S. senator of our time'   sluice [ sloos ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) an artificial channel fitted with a gate for conducting and regulating the flow of water 2. (n.) a channel or drain for surplus water 3. (n.) a stream of surplus water 4. (tr. v.) to drain the water from 3. (tr. v.) to flush or cleanse with a rush of water 4. (intr. v.) to flow through   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   When the water in the dam reached the overflow mark they opened all the sluices for the water level to subside.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The EA are very concerned that large rafts of weed could block sluice gates and weirs. The Telegraph, Punting in Cambridge threatened by river weed, 22 March 2010.   bailiwick [ BEY-luh'-wik ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the area or district of jurisdiction of a bailiff or a bailie 2. one's area of specialization, interest or authority   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The Key West islands were Ernest Hemingway's bailiwick.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   As we neared Chawton (the home of Austen), a compelling signpost dramatically proclaimed the bailiwick as Jane Austen's country. The Hindu, Magazine Columns, Literary trail   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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