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	30-Jan-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists phlegmatic [ fleg-MAT-ik ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. cool, composed or calm 2. sluggish or unemotional 3. pertaining to phlegm   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His phlegmatic approach to the problem was reassuring to his team.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   His long pony-tailed hair, designer stubble, phlegmatic demeanour, Bjorn Borg-like sinking to his knees after defeating Mark Philippoussis, not to mention his infectious tears of joy, lend him a magnetic appeal, which could do wonders for the following of tennis. The Times of India, Roger Federer has magnetic charm, ASHIS RAY, 20 Jul 2003   aseptic [ uh'-SEP-tik, ey-SEP- ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) sterile or free of pathogenic microbes 2. (adj.) lacking, warmth, animation or emotion 3. (n.) a commodity sold in an aseptic container   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Aseptic conditions are important in a medicinal laboratory.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The culled birds are buried in pits with lime, potassium permanganate and ordinary salt for creating aseptic conditions The Times of India, Bird flu: 80,000 birds to be culled today, 21 Feb 2006.   didactic [ dahy-DAK-tik ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. instructive 2. having a disposition to teach 3. morally instructive   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The lecturers were lively but they chose a dull, didactic subject which failed to catch the interest of the students.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It really is hoped to raise issues about heart health, but not in a patronising, didactic lecturing way, but through a series of somewhat entertaining sketches. BBC, The dramatic approach to heart health, Jane Elliott, 8 March 2009   lustre [ LUHS-tre ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) the quality of shining 2. (n.) a substance used to impart a gloss or shine 3. (n.) brilliance or radiance 4. (tr. v.) to finish with a gloss or shine 5. (intr. v.) to become shiny or brilliant   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She brought back the lustre to the brass ornaments by polishing them vigorously.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   But Mr Cavallo's star has lost its lustre, as recession has seen thousands of small businesses close and unemployment rise to 16%. BBC, Argentina plays down default fears, 31 October, 2001   expostulation [ ik-spos-chuh'-LEY-shuh'n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the act of objecting; remonstrance 2. an exclamation of earnest protest   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   They ignored his expostulations and took him to the hospital for a check-up.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   For the last four years the two proud dictators have built up their power by successive blows struck contrary to all treaties and good faith, to which the democracies have made no answer but patience and expostulation. The Telegraph, Germany's use of tactics of encirclement - June 22, 1939, By the Right Hon Winston Churchill, MP, 22 June 2009.   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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