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	21-Apr-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists pulchritude [ PUHL-kri-tood, -tyood ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   physical attractiveness, appeal or beauty   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The sculpture was a work of pulchritude.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Apart from the lack of pulchritude on display, Komsomolskaya Pravda was aghast at the poor photographs used. BBC, Russian media follows its paymasters, 19 December, 1999   hummock [ HUHM-uh' k ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a hillock, knoll or low hill 2. a mound, ridge or rise in an ice field 3. a tract of land that is fertile and rises above a marshy land   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The cottage was pleasantly situated beside a lush green hummock.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The "tanks" turned out to be crude dummies, drainage pipes stuck into hummocks of sand. Telegraph, Britons caught in terrifying hail of fire after fatal US mix-up in the sky, By Ben Fenton, 07 Feb 2007   indolence [ IN-dl-uh'ns ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the inclination to be lazy   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His indolence was detested by his family and friends.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A soldier was perched upright in the back of the vehicle, his bronzed arms cradling a machine gun, his pose a curious mix of indolence and menace. BBC, Reclaiming the past, Stephen Sackur, 24 May 2003, accessed 28 August 2009.   ravage [ RAV-ij ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to devastate or bring heavy destruction upon 2. (tr. v.) to wreak havoc upon 3. (tr. v.) to plunder 4. (intr. v.) to cause destruction 5. (n.) serious damage 6. (n.) the act of plundering   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The village and crops were ravaged by the storm.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Karzai is battling to form a functioning government and end a political crisis in the war ravaged nation that has dragged on since he was returned to power in a fraud-tainted presidential election in August. The Telegraph, Karzai's new cabinet seen as return to patronage politics, Sardar Ahmad, 11 January 2010.   impalpable [ im-pal-puh-buhl ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. intangible or not able to be perceived by the sense of touch 2. difficult for the mind to grasp or not easy to understand 3. very fine so that no grit is felt when rubbed between thumb and finger   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The life guard said that an impalpable pulse could be due to a very feeble heartbeat and did not mean that the victim was dead.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The major component of the formula has an original structure with the capacity to 'unroll' over the skin like an invisible, impalpable patch containing powerful anti-wrinkle agents. The Telegraph, Baffled by the beauty adverts? So is a Nobel prizewinner, Roger Highfield, 6 December 2005.   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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