TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 10-Feb-12

	If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.

	10-Feb-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists paean [ PEE-uh' n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a song or hymn to thank or praise 2. a song sung in praise of a deity in ancient Greece   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   John Lennon's paean to his wife Yoko in the song, "Woman", is an all time classic.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Indeed, "Carl Perkins' Cadillac"—Cooley's paean to the 1950's Memphis label Sun Records—contains more quotable phrases than any other song in recent memory. Chronicles magzine, Soundtrack to the New Old South, by Robert Lurie   factitious [ fak-TISH-uh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. forced, spontaneous, artificial or not genuine 2. manufactured, made, contrived or not natural   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His factitious manner made him a social outcast.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Sufferers of factitious disorder fake illness to gain attention and sympathy, according to the medical handbook "The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders." CNN, Trial set for medical examiner accused of staging his own attack, By Jessica Su, February 9, 2005   kindred [ KIN-drid ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) relatives or kin 2. (n.) a tribe, clan or race 3. (n.) affinity 4. (adj.) related by similarity of character or nature 5. (adj.) related by descent or birth   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   After the tycoon died, his kindred assembled for the reading of his will.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   On previous trips abroad, finding someone from your home nation has a mix of joy at meeting a kindred spirit and annoyance that your novelty has been cheapened somewhat. CNN, Hitting the sales in New York City, Peter Sorel-Cameron, 28 November 2007   crabbed [ KRAB-id ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. grouchy or irritable 2. obscure or difficult to understand or read   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The crabbed old man had a complaint for just about anything and everything.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Those few crabbed souls who resent the cost of maintaining the monarchy have little enough to resent, since the annual sum amounts to a mere 69p per person. The Telegraph, The Queen's flight, 6 July 2009.   fresco [ FRES-koh ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) the technique of painting on fresh, moist plaster with pigments mixed in water 2. (n.) any picture painted on fresh plaster with water paints 3.(tr. v.) to paint using the said technique   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The walls of the little chapel were covered with pictures of angles and saints painted in fresco.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Frescoes painted some 700 years ago by the Italian artist Giotto have been rediscovered in a chapel in Florence. BBC, Giotto frescoes 'rediscovered' in Florence chapel, 9 March 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 TestFunda.com - LEARN with THE LEADER in Online MBA Test Prep Demo Lessons   |   Take a Free Test   |   Buy Courses   |   Fun Learning Games   |   100-Percentilers About TestFunda.com - TestFunda is backed by www.ZeusLearning.com. 4 IIT-IIM graduates form the Management Team. - The 85+ member team has vast experience in MBA Coaching and Computer-Based Training and Testing. - For 9 years Zeus has created award-winning courseware for companies like Discovery Channel, Reader's Digest, Texas Instruments, Pearson Education. - The TestFunda Advisory Board comprises CEOs and MDs of international educational companies. About This Newsletter You received this email because you have registered with www.TestFunda.com. If you do not want to receive this email or want to sign up for other newsletters from TestFunda  click here. Problems getting this mail? To get this mail in your inbox, add noreply@testfunda.com to your contact list.       UNSUBSCRIBE / SUBSCRIBE | ABOUT | WHY TESTFUNDA | FAQ | PRIVACY | SUPPORT | CONTACT | DISCUSS   © Enabilon Learning Private Limited. All rights reserved