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	29-Apr-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists somnambulist [ som-NAM-byuh'-list ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   one who walks whilst asleep   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The doctors identified her to be a somnambulist.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Like a somnambulist, I reached the gate of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, struggling to keep the drooping eyes open. The Times of India, Marathon on a heady morning, Indraneel Das, TNN, 15 Nov 2002   inalienable [ in-EYL-yuh'-nuh'-buh' l, -EY-lee-uh'- ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   inviolable, inherent, basic or unassailable   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His claim to his family's holdings was inalienable.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   According to IRNA, the Iranian president told the French interviewer that his country's nuclear activities are legal, "based on the country's legal and inalienable rights" and that the program would "continue without hesitation." CNN, Ahmadinejad rejects U.N. sanctions, March 25, 2007   waft [ waft, wahft  ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to propel or cause to move gently on a buoyant medium 2. (intr.v.) to float or drift gently esp. on the air 3. (n.) one, like sound or odour, that can be perceived faintly   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   We got the waft of the cake even through the closed door.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The aroma of freshly baking flatbread wafts through the air as a unit of British soldiers position themselves for a quick patrol around the village of Sindh Kalay. CNN, British Army builds mock Afghan village in English countryside, By Atika Shubert CNN, July 2, 2009   chronicle [ KRON-i-kuh'l ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a history or an extended narrative report of historical events presented in a time sequence 2. (n.) a detailed record of events 3. (tr. v.) to record in historical format   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Many who start reading the chronicle of the knight in shining armour find it so interesting that they cannot stop till they reach the end.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The girl had chronicled two years of the emotions and fears that gripped her during hiding, as well as candid thoughts on her family, her feelings for friend-in-hiding Peter van Pels, and dreams of being a professional writer. CNN, Miep Gies, Anne Frank protector, dies at 100, 11 January 2010.   hermitage [ HUR-mi-tij  ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a retreat or secluded dwelling place 2. the place where a hermit lives or his way of life 3. a rich, full-bodied, red wine which is produced in the southeast of France   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The author retreated to a hermitage in the hope that the solitude would help him think and develop new ideas for his novel.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Traditionally hermitages have been located in caves and huts, often in the desert or woods, sometimes abutting monastery buildings of a cenobitic community when there was an exchange of labour and provisions. Wikipedia, Hermitage (religious retreat)   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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