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	16-Jul-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists voluble [ VOL-yuh'-buh'l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   marked by a ready and continuous flow of words   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Despite voluble protests from the Human rights commission, crimes against women and minorities are on the increase.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   By last month, it had become apparent that the expression of free speech within the law through weekly visible and voluble protests in South Parks Road and marches from time to time in central Oxford would never satisfy some protestors. Oxford University Gazette, Biomedical research at Oxford: from the Vice-Chancellor   lien [ leen, LEE-uh' n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   the legal right to claim or sell property of a debtor as security or payment for a debt .   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   It is almost obligatory for banks to hold a lien in all business loans.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It is likewise clearly established, that insurance brokers have a lien upon all policies, and bankers upon all paper securities, and attornies upon all papers in their possession belonging to their employers, for the general balance of their accounts. A Treatise of the Law Relative to the Rights of Lien and Stoppage in Transitu, By Richard Whitaker   nugatory [ NOO-guh'-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, NYOO- ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   of no worth or meaning   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   If the government is unable to tackle corruption, the very substance of government becomes nugatory.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Eventually the mortgage which starts out as a dreadful burden becomes nugatory. Telegraph, Tide turns on ludicrous boom in house prices, By Roger Bootle, 24/04/2008   prude [ prood ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a person, esp., a woman who is excessively conscious about proper behaviour and appearance   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Being a prude, she refused to attend her school's Saturday night dance programme.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In the blood of the socialist, there should always run a trace of the anarchist and the libertarian, and not too much of the prig and the prude. Telegraph, Forget the school, it's the teaching that counts, By Susan Crosland   gibberish [ JIB-er-ish, GIB- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. unintelligible language 2. talk or writing that contains a lot of pretentious or technical words   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The wounded soldier was barely conscious and was talking gibberish.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   His clothes were practically burned from his body. He was just talking gibberish. Sunday Herald, The airport attack, By Torcuil Crichton and Judith Duffy   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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