TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 14-Jun-12

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14-Jun-12
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stentorian [ sten-TAWR-ee-uh' n, -TOHR- ]
 adjective ]
 MEANING :
 tremendously loud or noisy
 USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
 Many people had a sleepless night because of the stentorian concert.
 USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
 In stentorian voice, Betancourt tells the leftist rebels that if they turn themselves in their lives will be respected and they'll get back their honor, their family and their liberty.
abcNEWS, Helicopter Ingrid to Rebels: 'Give Up', BOGOTA, Colombia July 9, 2008
 
insouciant [ in-SOO-see-uh' nt; Fr. an*-soo-syahn* ]
 adjective ]
 MEANING :
 nonchalant, indifferent, unconcerned or breezy
 USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
 It was his insouciant attitude which made him seem brazen at times.
 USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
 Hillary returned to the depiction of herself as an insouciant Daisy Buchanan.
CNN, 'Hillary's Choice', by Gail Sheehy, December 1, 1999
 
wend [ wend ]
 noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]
 MEANING :
 1. (tr.v.) to direct or proceed along (one's way)
2. (intr.v.)to proceed or travel
3. (n.) one of the Slavic people of Lusitania
 USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
 He wended his way through the jungle to get to the city.
 USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
 On Wednesday night, senators voted 90-9 to include the provision to the $440 billion Defense Department spending bill now wending its way through Congress.
CNN, Senate ignores veto threat in limiting detainee treatment, 6 October 2005
 
sham [ sham ]
 noun, verb, adjective ]
 MEANING :
 1. (n.) something false that is alleged to be genuine
2. (n.) a person who feigns illness or pretends
3. (n.) a cover up or giving a false outward appearance
4. (adj.) feigned or pretended
5. (v.) to pretend or put on false appearances
 USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
 The investigation was a sham as the detectives were not keen on catching the culprit.
 USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
 A man jailed for arranging sham marriages in Northern Ireland has launched a legal bid to avoid deportation to Nigeria.
BBC, Sham marriage scammer to fight deportation, 4 February 2010.
 
rasp [ rasp, rahsp ]
 intransitive verb, transitive verb ]
 MEANING :
 1. (tr. v.) to scrape with something rough
2. (tr. v.) to irritate of grate upon
3. (tr. v.) to speak with a grating sound
4. (intr. v.) to grate or scrape
5.(intr. v.) to make a grating sound
6. (n.) a coarse file with sharp, raised, pointed projections
7.(n.) a grating sound
 USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
 The lad said that he rasped the rust off the lawn mower for five dollars and would charge another five dollars to grease the mechanism.
 USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
 Tension builds as screams and shrieks come from the undergrowth, horror-film music booms out and a woman's voice rasps "If you go down to the woods today, you'd better not go alone."
The Telegraph, Thi3teen: gothic horrors in Alton Towers, Joanna Symons, 26 March 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. Principe
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