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	26-Dec-11 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists impregnable [ im-PREG-nuh'-buh' l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. unassailable, invincible or unconquerable 2. capable of being impregnated   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The impregnable Daulatabad fort has only been captured by treachery.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A weekend poll giving the Conservatives a 7% lead over Labour and their best showing since before Black Wednesday merely illustrates what we already knew: that the floating voters of the English marginals want to be reassured that their expensive homes are as impregnable against the tax collector as any castle. The Herald, Simple steps to regain trust   brackish [ BRAK-ish ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. salty, saline or briny 2. nauseating, repulsive or distasteful   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The brackish nature of the water made it impossible to drink.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The resident of seasonal brackish and freshwater ponds was found in just one pool in the New Forest until it was discovered at Caerlaverock four years ago during a particularly wet August. Telegraph, Tadpole shrimp, the oldest living species, re-emerges after wet summer, 28 Aug 2008   jabberwocky [ JAB-er-wok-ee ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) nonsensical talk or gibberish 2. (adj.) meaningless or senseless   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Jabberwocky is the first language spoken by babies.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Inconsistency was unavoidable in a policy such as this, and Burchfield freely acknowledged that he changed his mind as he went along, for example deciding in 1973 - after the publication in 1972 of his first volume, treating the letters A-H - to include all rather than just some Jabberwocky coinages, with the consequence that, of this group of words, only borogove, callay, callooh, frumious, and gimble are omitted from the Supplement (Burchfield 1974: 13). University of Oxford, Indexes and inconsistencies, 23 September 2008   bravado [ bruh'-VAH-doh ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a false display of bravery 2. a pretentious show of courage 3. defiant behaviour 4. a disposition toward defiant behaviour or false display of bravery.   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The bravado of the striking workers was effective as management conceded to most of their demands.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Suddenly all our bravado deserted us and we decided to turn back. The Telegraph, Britain at War: It was very dark because of the blackout and suddenly all our bravado deserted us, 14 Aprol 2009.   sepulcher [ SEP-uh'l-ker ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a tomb or burial vault 2. (n.) a receptacle for sacred relics, as saints or martyrs 3.(n.) a burial place or chamber 2. (tr. v.) to bury or place in a tomb   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   They destroyed the sepulcher in their search for buried treasure.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The grandmother, mother and three children are struck stark dead and buried in the ruins of this humble edifice, a sepulcher well worth the enemy's remembrance. BBC, THE SIEGE OF CHESTER DURING THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR. 22 August 2002.   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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