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	21-Jan-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists ossify [ OS-uh'-fahy ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to harden and transform to a bone 2. (tr. v.) to be rigid or resist change and unconventionality 3. (intr. v.) to change a bone by hardening 4. (intr. v.) to be rigid or unconventional in beliefs and behaviour   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Countries that do not allow any form of free expression to their people will ossify artistically, socially and ultimately economically.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Economies that do not bring out the best in people will ossify and fall behind. BBC, UK Politics: Warring parties clash over elitism, June 3, 2000   apoplexy [ AP-uh'-plek-see ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a stroke or cerebral accident 2. haemorrhage or sudden effusion of blood into a tissue or organ 3. an impairment or loss of bodily esp. neurological function caused by the breakage or rupture of a blood vessel   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Losing his temper caused him to suffer an apoplexy.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   If the replacement of the old cast iron columns with what David derides as "motorway lights" was not galling in itself, the fate of the removed lights is enough to propel him into apoplexy. BBC, 'Stop nicking my street furniture', by Finlo Rohrer, 27 June 2008   kempt [ kempt ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   well-groomed or tidy   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Her kempt appearance was the result of regular visits to the beauty parlour.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It is impossible to imagine how this neat and well kempt little town, rather beautifully landscaped from the rock and the scrubland on the banks of the Hudson Bay, will change if it does become a boom town in a warmer world. BBC, Canada's climate change boomtown, Adam Fowler, 2 January 2008   dinghy [ DING-gee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. any small boat for use as a tender or lifeboat 2. an inflatable life raft 3. a small rowing or sailing boat   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   They rowed the dinghy to the centre of the lake to do their fishing.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   On March 22, 2008, Brian Lewis, 50, scuttled the Jubilee in the Puget Sound Bay, then rowed a borrowed dinghy back to shore, according to court documents filed in February by prosecutors in King County, Washington. CNN, Seattle man accused of sinking his own yacht, Mayra Cuevas-Nazario, 22 February 2009.   calorific [ kal-uh'-RIF-ik  ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. pertaining to the conversion into heat or to the generation of heat 2. producing heat   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   When on a fat reducing diet one has to calculate the calorific value of the food consumed.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   They devote a huge amount of time to gathering honey – it offers huge calorific reward for relatively little work. BBC, Tribe, 6 May 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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