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	24-Nov-11 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists epicure [ EP-i-kyoo' r ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a connoisseur of food and wine 2. one who enjoys sensual pleasure and living   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   London is an epicure's delight with restaurants serving varied cuisine from all over the world.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Proof that Montreal is an epicure's dream: Les Touilleurs (152 Ave. Laurier Ouest; 514/278-0008) in Mile End, where marble counters are piled with cooking implements, including Quebecer Tom Littledeer's maple spoons and spatulas. CNN, Montreal's moment, By Amy Farley, September 6, 2007   amplitude [ AM-pli-tood, -tyood ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   the state or quality of being ample, especially to breadth and width; largeness, greatness of extent or abundant   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   It was the very amplitude of the furnace which ensured heating for the entire village.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   If you run that back in time to the 17th century using sunspot records, you'll find that this amplitude variance is negligible for climate. National Geographic, Don't Blame Sun for Global Warming, Study Says, Brian Handwerk, September 13, 2006   garble [ GAHR-buh'l  ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to jumble, scramble or mix up ignorantly 2. (tr.v.) to distort so as to misrepresent 3. (n.) an instance or act of garbling   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The competitor's data had been garbled by the spy planted in his organization.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   PDFs maintain the integrity of any imagery or scribbling you may have added in the margins, which is a big improvement over the old OCR programs that rendered most everything as a garbled text document. CNN, Lifelines for home offices drowning in paper, Matt Ransford, 8 April 2008   hone [ hohn ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a whetstone for sharpening the blade of knives and other instruments 2. to sharpen(tr. v.) 3. (tr. v.) to improve or make more effective   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The farmer used a hone to sharpen his sickle.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   We're all reality stars now, on Facebook, Twitter and all the myriad online outlets where we hone our personal brands. CNN, 10 Web trends to watch in 2010, Pete Cashmore, 3 December 2009.   piecemeal [ PEES-meel ]   [ adjective, adverb ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) done bit by bit or in stages 2. (adj.) accomplished gradually 3. (adv.) into pieces or fragments 4.(adv.) piece by piece or one piece at a time   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The manager was not happy with the piecemeal work being done by the labour force and told the supervisor to engage better workers.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In any case, such piecemeal reforms will not be good enough for Germany, the continent's largest economy, its most solvent and the most at risk of being asked to keep paying for its partners' bad housekeeping. The Telegraph, More cracks in the eurozone despite likely deal for Greece, Adrian Michaels and Bruno Waterfield, 14 March 2010.   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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