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	08-Jun-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists staid [ steyd ]   [ verb, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) sedate, sober or steady 2. (adj.) fixed, unchanged or not mutable 3. (v.) (archaic) stay   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The staid cut of his coat was unfashionable.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Mr S Iswaran, the trade and industry minister spearheading the event, says F1 would help reinvent Singapore by dispelling its staid and conservative image and boosting the economy. BBC, Singapore hopes F1 will rev up economy, By Sharanjit Leyl, 29 September 2008   miscegenation [ mi-sej-uh'-NEY-shuh' n, mis-i-juh'- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. marriage or interbreeding between a man and a woman who belong to different races 2. hybridization or mixture   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Miscegenation was discouraged in olden times.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Simply because miscegenation ends up confusing not only flavours, it tends to negate the beneficial properties of systematically evolved regional food habits. The Times of India, COUNTERVIEW regional food loses its efficacy, 18 Sep 2004   mite [ mahyt ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. any of several small acarid arachnids that are often parasitic and infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors 2. a small amount or sum of money   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Mites, because of their small size, often go unnoticed.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A respiratory condition in which the lung airways are chronically inflamed, asthma can be triggered by substances other than pet dander, such as dust mites, exhaust, smoke, and cold air, or even allergens from rodents and cockroaches. CNN, What to do if you're allergic to your pet, By Ray Hainer, August 13, 2009   tutelary [ TOOT-l-er-ee ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) holding the position of being the guardian or protector of a person, place, or thing 2. (adj.) pertaining to a guardian or protector 3. (n.) the person who serves as a guardian 4. (n.) one who has protective powers   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   In the Harry Potter series, Harry learned loads of new powerful magical spells under Dumbledore's watchful, tutelary eye.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   They were not offering a tutelary lesson in morals or inviting their viewers to a perception of transcendence. BBC, The Wordsworths and the Cult of Nature, Pamela Woof, 5 Nov 2009.   culprit [ KUHL-prit ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. an agent guilty of or responsible for an offense 2. a person charged with an offense or crime 3. a person guilty of a crime   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The culprit was identified by the witness.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Despite insisting that no one should jump to any conclusions about what happened, each of the main companies involved could not resist adding, "Uh, but in the meantime…you know, those OTHER guys are probably the real culprits here." CNN, Dear President Obama #478 "Slippery as oil", Tom Foreman, 12 May 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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