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	22-Sep-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists malodorous [ mal-OH-der-uh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   having a foul, offensive or bad smell   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The malodorous garbage vat nearby made us cross the road.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Eddie Ortega, the director of Del Rio's Community Health Service Center, said there's an unusually high number of the malodorous creatures running around these days. abcNEWS, Texas Border Town Faces Skunk Infestation, DEL RIO, Texas July 31, 2008   milieu [ mil-YOO' , meel-; Fr. mee-lyœ ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a setting or environment, especially of a social or cultural nature   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The milieu that R K Narayan created in his novels- that of a small South Indian town called Malgudi- made him a popular and much loved writer.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He would have studied languages, arithmetic, and accounting, but above all else he would have been immersed in Sumerian literature. This would be the intellectual milieu he grew up in National Geographic, Journey of Faith, By Tad Szulc   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   ribald [ RIB-uh' ld; spelling pron. RAHY-buh' ld ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) lewd, indecent or vulgar 2. (n.) a person who is vulgar, lewd or ribald   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He purchased a book comprising mainly of ribald jokes.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   There ensued ribald laughter from Conservatives on the backbenches around him. Telegraph, Yesterday in Parliament, By Michael Kallenbach, 15 May 2003   mutatis mutandis [ moo-TAH-tees moo-TAHN-dees; Eng. myoo-TEY-tis myoo-TAN-dis ]   [ adverb ]   MEANING :   having all the necessary changes or adjustments incorporated   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Every Sunday we heard the same sermon mutatis mutandis repeated.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Every Monday, first thing, we turned out last year's volume to see what advice we had given to the nation twelve months ago; and we were inclined, mutatis mutandis, to repeat it. Economist, Valedictories past, Mar 30th 2006   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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