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	23-Nov-11 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists enjoin [ en-JOIN ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to prescribe or impose authoritatively 2. to prevent, prohibit or refrain by a judicial order   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The Prime minister would do well to enjoin the media from sensationalising the race hate crimes against Indians in Australia.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   I enjoin the media, the fans and players to give maximum support to the Super Eagles because that is what they need to succeed. BBC, Nigeria coach Amodu slams critics, By Oluwashina Okeleji, Sunday, 13 April 2008   contort [ kuh' n-TAWRT ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to twist, deform, distort or bend 2. (intr.v.) to be strained or distorted   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His face contorted into a grimace after tasting the vile medicine.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Every now and then, when the situation calls for it, they've been known to bend, sculpt, or otherwise contort the facts to their liking. CNN, Lies are good for family and friends, By Lisa Kogan, September 5, 2008   jabber [ JAB-er ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to utter or chatter rapidly and indistinctly 2. (n.) gibberish or non-sensical chatter   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The children jabbered away when the teacher stepped out of the classroom.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Bush is winning today because he has jettisoned the jabber about global democracy and argues that a U.S. withdrawal risks a strategic disaster, national humiliation, massacre of our friends and triumph for al-Qaida. Chronicles Magazine, Retreat of the Antiwar Democrats, Patrick J. Buchanan, 12 September 2007   genre [ ZHAHN-ruh' ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1.(n.) a category of artistic work which has a particular form or technique 2. (n.) a particular type or style 3. (adj.) pertaining to a distinctive literary type   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was adjudged best author of the year in the genre of poems for children.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Now, more than 20 years later, her "Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter" series is one of the best-selling in the genre. CNN, Vampire romance novels suck in readers, Lisa Respers France, 25 November 2009.   squabble [ SKWOB-uh'l ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a quarrel about a petty or trivial matter 2. (tr. v.) to disarrange and mix type that had been composed 5.(intr. v.) to engage in a petty quarrel or argue over a trivial matter   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He stopped the squabble when he assured the children that everyone would get a chance to bat.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   While EU states squabble over the privileges they may have to give up, those in the waiting-room of membership chafe and fret and sometimes explode with annoyance. BBC, Europe squabbles over expansion, 12 June 2001.   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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