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	14-Dec-11 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists inscrutable [ in-SKROO-tuh'-buh' l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. mysterious, enigmatic or obscure 2. difficult to understand or interpret   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His inscrutable theories were difficult to comprehend.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Ever since that decisive No. 1 draft in the NBA, Yao has become China's most famous sports icon, projecting an image of youth, vigor and greatness to a Western world that had long viewed the Chinese as "inscrutable". CNN, Shooting high, bouncing back: Yao Ming, August 6, 2008   cohere [ koh-HEER ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr.v.) to be united or stick together 2. (intr.v.) to be consistent or congruous in a logical manner 3. (tr.v.) to be united consistently and logically   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   All parts of the story must cohere for it to be logically consistent.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   African players need to go through some research and self-assessment in order to ascertain whether or not their physical and mental attributes cohere with the club in question. BBC, Best league for African players?, 14 August, 2001   umpteen [ UHMP-TEEN ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   relatively large but unspecified in number   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Despite umpteen warnings he still indulged in cross-border smuggling.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   For a few hours on Monday umpteen Indian television channels moved away from previewing the India-Pakistan Twenty20 cricket final in South Africa to focus on the induction of Rahul Gandhi into the Congress party hierarchy. BBC, Gandhis plot their next move, Sunil Rahman, 24 September 2007   capacious [ kuh'-PEY-shuh's ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. having great capacity 2. spacious or roomy   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The capacious stadium can seat ten thousand spectators.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Winter weekends are easily capacious enough to hold two fabulous entertainment shows – so why force a hungry public to choose? The Telegraph, Strictly Come Dancing doesn't have that X factor for me to switch, Becky Pugh, 10 September 2009.   incorporeal [ in-kawr-PAWR-ee-uh'l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. not material, lacking form or substance 2. characteristic of non material beings 3. insubstantial or relating to an asset that does not have value in material form like a right or patent   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He said that the ghost had an incorporeal body which is why it could walk through walls.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   These are angels as we expect to see them- incorporeal beings alighting on earth like birds on a branch. The Telegraph, Flights of divine fantasy, Richard Dorment, 19 December 2006.   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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