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	10-Oct-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists obdurate [ OB-doo-rit, -dyoo'- ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding. 2. stubbornly resistant to moral influence; persistently impenitent   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His obdurate innings saved the match for his team.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A difficult aspect of Louis Boudin's legacy is illustrated by his obdurate attempt to join the first convention of the International Workers of the World, known as the "Wobblies", on June 27, 1905, in Chicago. ABC News, Book Excerpt: Family Circle, The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left   malcontent [ mal-kuh' n-TENT ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a disgruntled or displeased person 2. (adj.) disgruntled, displeased or dissatisfied   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The journalist's constant criticisms of every administration's foibles proved that he was a political malcontent.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   That bothers Rich "Downtown" Brown, a wiry chain-smoking malcontent. National Geographic, ZipUSA: 33856, By Melba Newsome   nether [ NETH' -er ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. lower, below or under 2. positioned below or under the surface of the earth 3. infernal   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Not much is known to us about the nether regions lying in the Earth's crust.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   This nether world runs just below the surface of the world of bedecked and manipulative brides, and is defined by superstition, black magic, occult, witchcraft, planchette, rebirth and evil spirits. The Times of Inda, Dark deeds of another worls invades TV, Piali Banerjee, Nov 30, 2003   nonagenarian [ non-uh'-juh'-NAIR-ee-uh' n, noh-nuh'- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a person whose age is in the nineties   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   My nonagenarian grandfather remains healthy thanks to the daily walk he has taken for the past sixty years.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   And there were such activities as practicing scales on the piano, playing bridge, reading, and agonizing with friends over America's current quagmire. Not too bad a life for a nonagenarian. ABC News, Excerpt: 'The Red Leather Diary', Lily Koppel, June 30, 2008   bric-a-brac [ BRIK-uh'-brak ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   an assortment of small articles collected chiefly for decoration or sentimental value   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The host's sitting room was full of expensive bric-a-brac that he had assiduously collected over the years.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Need to dust that collection of glass animals or other delicate items? Put on some fabric gloves -- the softer the better -- to clean your bric-a-brac thoroughly. Reader's Digest, Dusting , From Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things   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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