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	11-Aug-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists paraplegic [ par-uh'-PLEE-jee-uh', -juh' ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. someone who is suffering from paraplegia 2. one who is afflicted by the paralysis of the lower half of the body due to some injury to the spinal cord   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The paraplegic in the hospital refused medication as he did not wish to live any longer.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Mikheyev threw himself out his cell window to escape his tormentors, landed on a police motorcycle and broke his back, rendering him a paraplegic. Newsweek, Russia: A Phone Call to Putin, Anna Nemtsova, Mar 13, 2006   harlequin [ HAHR-luh'-kwin, -kin ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a comic character usu. wearing a mask, tights and holding a wooden sword or magic wand 2. (n.) a buffoon; clown 3. (adj.) variegated with marks; varied in colour or decoration   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Most children love going to the circus in order to be able to enjoy the antics of harlequins.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Harlequin is the most popular of the zanni or comic servant characters from the Italian Commedia dell'Arte. Wikipedia, Harlequin   boisterous [ BOI-ster-uh' s, -struh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. rough, noisy; rowdy; very jolly or high spirited 2. (of waves) stormy and rough   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Soccer is a sport which attracts large, boisterous crowds.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The work of British sculptor Raymond Mason, it depicts a crowd of boisterous market porters bearing fruit and vegetables and pushing laden handcarts. CNN, Central Paris treasure awaits discovery,By Mark Tungate, July 17, 2008   nifty [ NIF-tee ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   (adj.) very smart, clever and stylish   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The nifty satire of Catch 22 made it a huge bestseller.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Just as Shakespeare singlehandedly changed the language by adding all kinds of nifty new words and phrases, change in pronunciation is an ongoing process. BBC, American Regional Dialects - Da Chicago Dialect and the Northern Cities Vowel Shift, 14th March 2008   echelon [ ESH-uh'-lon ]   [ noun, verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a formation of troops or military aircraft, or individuals wherein each unit is positioned somewhat to the right or left of the unit in front such that the entire formation appears like a series of stairs 2. (n.) one of several units of such an arrangement 3. (n.) any group or unit that acts in an organised or disciplined way 4. (n.) a grade or level of authority 5. (n.) (spectroscopy) a diffraction grating that consists of a series of plates arranged one after another in a stepwise manner 6. (v.) to be a part of an echelon   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The top echelon of the company took the decision to expand the company's operations overseas.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The first Echelon of 21 B.D. Sector embarked in five LCT's on June 2nd '44 at Portland where they remained in harbour till Sunday, June 4th '44. BBC, Report on the Landing in France of the First Echelon of 21 BD sector on D-day, 6 June 1944, by DavidHeathcote, 01 November 2003   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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