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	22-Feb-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists lithe [ lahyth' ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. flexed, supple or slender 2. effortlessly graceful or flexible   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The athlete's lithe muscles are a result of regimented training.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Joseph's lithe alto coos and growls above two tenors and seven basses that make soothing, rhythmic textures punctuated by breathy bursts. National Geographic, Iscathamiya, Banning Eyre   effusion [ i-FYOO-zhuh' n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. an act or instance of pouring forth 2. one that is effused or poured forth 3. an unrestrained outburst of expressions and feelings   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The effusion of mass hysteria made the crowd dangerous and out of control.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   You might think that this does no harm, and I dare say that plenty of people sigh a pleasant little sentimental sigh when they read these effusions. Telegraph, Poet Laureate: does poetry need one?, By Rupert Christiansen, 02 Mar 2009   ungainly [ uhn-GEYN-lee ]   [ adjective, adverb ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) not graceful; clumsy 2. (adv.) in a clumsy manner   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The ungainly waiter caused a ruckus while serving lunch by dropping food on a patron.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The new shoes look as if they have a Frankenstein life and motion of their own; young women walk in them (ungainly and swaying, waving their arms for balance) the way an inexperienced rider sits an energetic horse that is barely under control. CNN, It stinks how we've gone mad for crazy shoes, Lance Morrow, 19 June 2000   abscission [ ab-SIZH-uh'n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a sudden termination or the act of cutting off 2. the natural separation of a fruit, flowers and leaves from a plant   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The botanist was working on an experiment to delay the abscission in the petals of the rose so that it would remain fresh for a long time.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Understanding the process of abscission - which applies to petals and fruit as well as leaves - will be of particular interest to the commercial fruit tree and cut flower industries, which aim to ensure fruit remains on branches until it is ripe. The Telegraph, Why leaves fall off trees is discovered, Roger Highfield, 22 September 2008.   dictum [ DIK-tuh'm ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. an authoritative pronouncement 2. a judicial assertion 3. an authoritative say-so or formal pronouncement   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The people followed his dictum and assembled at the park even though the police commissioner declared that the rally was illegal.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Lenin's hoary dictum on the critical importance of cinema was never better realised than by two 1927 films, Sergei Eisenstein's October (10 Days That Shook the World) and Vsevolod Pudovkin's The End of St Petersburg. The Telegraph, Andrzej Wajda's Katyn: a film which offers healing truth for both Poland and Russia, 29 April 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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