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	15-Jan-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists inculcate [ in-KUHL-keyt, IN-kuhl-keyt ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   to instil, teach or impress by repeating frequently   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The Prime Minister exhorted the teaching community to inculcate virtue in the young.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Perhaps with reference to the Taiwan Strait crisis, Hu urged media and propaganda workers to inculcate among the public ideas and artistic work that "will be beneficial to the unity of the Chinese race, the unification of the motherland, and the cohesiveness of the people." CNN, Maoist revival challenges reform efforts, By Senior China Analyst Willy Wo-Lap Lam, December 23, 2003   canine [ KEY-nahyn ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) pertaining to or characteristic of a dog 2. (n.) a dog 3. (n.) a cuspid or canine tooth   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The canine unit is invaluable in the drug enforcement agency.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Malaysia sought to form the world's first permanent canine anti-piracy unit after borrowing two dogs — Lucky and Flo — from the U.S. Motion Picture Association. abcNEWS, DVD-Sniffing Anti-Piracy Dog Dies in Malaysia, by JULIA ZAPPEI, June 9, 2008   janitor [ JAN-i-ter ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a custodian or caretaker of a building who's in charge of maintenance 2. (n.) a doorkeeper 3. (tr.v.) to be or get employed as a janitor   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Attend to your studies or you will surely end up a janitor like me.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The school's janitor thinks that although the toilets are clean, they could still be improved. BBC, Toilets, talent and tackles, 21 March 2009   cursive [ KUR-siv ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) in flowing strokes with the letters joined together 2. (adj.) in flowing strokes like handwriting 3. (n.) style of typeface which is like handwriting   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The banners were written in a cursive style so as to be eye catching.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The cursive script used in some of the letters indicates that it may be the writing of an older person. The Telegraph, Police hunt abusive letter writer, 29 September 2009.   concatenate [ kon-KAT-n-eyt ]   [ adjective, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to link in a series or chain 2. (tr. v.) to arrange (strings of characters) into a chained list 3. (tr. v.) connect or unite in a series 4. (adj.) connected or linked in a series   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The items on his list were separated into two categories and concatenated.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   When a client request is received for a particular topic order, the topics are simply retrieved from the cache in that order and concatenated to form the complete page. BBC, A brief technical overview of the BBC personalised mobile homepage, 20 January 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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