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	04-Feb-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists indubitable [ in-DOO-bi-tuh'-buh' l, -DYOO- ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   certain, unquestionable or definite   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Despite Pakistan's protestations, there is indubitable evidence that most of the terrorists in Kashmir are Pakistani origin.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In sum, the enlightenment was a cultural synthesis, which arose from a scientific and industrial revolution, rather than a logical canon built from indubitable first principles which we cannot disown without sounding insane. The Times of India, Laptops & Liberalism, 30 May 2001   carrion [ KAR-ee-uh' n ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) putrefying or decaying flesh 2. (n.) one that is decaying or rotting 3. (adj.) pertaining to or like decaying flesh 4. (adj.) feeding on putrefying or decaying flesh   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Vultures feed on carrion which is often remains from a carcass.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Buzzards are known to be lazy carrion feeders and normally hunt on open land, eating worms, beetles, small mammals or carcasses. Telegraph, Buzzard snatches and kills rare bird, by Richard Savill, 15 Jan 2009   jeremiad [ jer-uh'-MAHY-uh' d, -ad ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a sermon or speech warning of disaster or prophecy of doom 2.a mournful lamentation or complaint   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The congregation went home fearing their own shadows after the jeremiad delivered by the pastor.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Once upon a time, Labour used to issue jeremiads about the creeping privatisation of the NHS BBC, What's next for the NHS, 1 August 2006   repress [ ri-PRESS ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to keep under control by an act of volition 2. (tr. v.) to suppress or put down by force 3. (tr. v.) to exclude disturbing memories automatically from the conscious mind 4. (intr. v.) to undergo or bring about suppression   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   We could not repress the laughter when his practical joke backfired, making him the victim of his own twisted humour.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   NAVFOR is "a military operation to help deter, prevent and repress acts of piracy and armed robbery off the coast of Somalia," CNN, Hijacked ships released off Somalia, 28 December 2009.   warp [ wawrp ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to twist out of shape or bend 2. (tr. v.) to distort of falsify 3. (intr. v.) to become twisted or bent 4. (intr. v.) to become prejudiced 5. (n.) a bend, twist, or variation from 6. (n.) a biased judgement 7. (n.) the set of yarns crossed by and interlaced with the weft and which form the lengthwise threads in woven fabric   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The cruel practical jokes that he played on his friends stemmed from a sense of humour that had been warped.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It's a playfully dappled world, fascinated by nature - but warped by unsettling characters who lurk in the background and wreak surreal havoc. BBC, Review: Animal Collective's Oddsac, Rodrigo Davies, 10 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. Principe
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