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	31-Mar-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists retrench [ ri-TRENCH ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to reduce, cut down or curtail 2. (tr. v.) to delete or remove 3. (intr. v.) to economize or scrimp   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His orders retrenched the supplies reaching the branch offices.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The decision will enable companies, having up to 1,000 employees, to retrench without getting prior approval from the government. The Times of India, Corporate India welcomes labour law amendments, 22 Feb 2002   hegira [ hi-JAHY-ruh', HEJ-er-uh' ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a journey undertaken in order to escape from an unpleasant place and get to a more conducive one 2. (islam) the flight of prophet muhammad from mecca to medina in 622 a.d.   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The hegira is re-enacted every year.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Eventually, the leading scholars of the third century after the hegira sifted through the extant material and made their own collections of what they thought to be authentic. Telegraph, Hadith: a tradition stretching back to Mohammed, By Alan Jones, 14 Nov 2001   immaculate [ i-mak-yuh'-lit ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. pure, without any blemish 2. without any errors 3. free form sin   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His immaculate appearance at all times amazed his colleagues.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Either their homes are absolutely immaculate and look like something out of a House and Gardens magazine, or are a complete mess as they never have the time and the enthusiasm when they get home! BBC, EastEnders - Characters & Cast - Interviews, Kirsten Dudley, 2 July 2009   atavism [ AT-uh'-viz-uh'm ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the reappearance of characteristics of some remote ancestor, in an individual, that have been absent for some generations 2. a throwback or a reversion to an earlier type   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The proud father explained to his wife that the sixth toe on the left foot of their baby was due to atavism.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Murray is neither sentimental nor whimsical when he writes about this atavism on the edge of our world; as a Hebridean native himself, he understands the culture as a living and changing thing, mourning the loss of people first, and folk-ways only in as much as they form part of a holistic system. The Telegraph, The Guga Hunters by Donald S Murray - review, Will Self, 26 November 2008.   atrophy [ A-truh'-fee ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) the wasting away of the body due to defective nutrition or the withering of a part of the body due to nerve damage 2. (n.) degeneration resulting from disuse 3. (tr. v.) to undergo withering or wasting away 2. (tr. v.) to cause to waste away or wither 3. (intr. v.) to waste away or wither   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The college student suffered from intellectual atrophy which was caused by the habitual use of hallucinogenic drugs.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   High phosphate levels may also increase the prevalence and severity of age-related complications, such as chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular calcification, and can also induce severe muscle and skin atrophy. The Telegraph, Fizzy drinks and processed foods linked to premature ageing, 27 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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