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	02-Oct-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists taciturn [ TAS-i-turn ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. one who is habitually less inclined to talk   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was a taciturn man who chose his words with care.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Keshubhai Patel, a generous host to scribes clamouring for bytes, was remarkably taciturn. The Times of India, Modi advised to expand his cabinet, by Mohua Chatterjee, March 31, 2005   mores [ MAWR-eyz, -eez, MOHR- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. socially accepted customs and traditions 2. attitudes, ways or manners   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The social mores prevalent in the villages still forbid inter-caste marriages.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   With the print run nearing half a million, it is time for Chronicles to refocus on "American culture" in the proper sense of die Kultur, the sum of the life of a community and its mores. Chronicles magzine, It's 2028, and All Is Well: The Diary of an Aging Counterrevolutionary, by Srdja Trifkovic   overweening [ OH-ver-WEE-ning ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. brash, arrogant or conceited excessive or overbearing   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His brash, overweening manner was repugnant to all.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Despite its overweening ambition to re-write the rule book governing how multi-part TV crime yarns unfold, Mobile's first episode succeeded in being as attention-grabbing as it was implausible; as entertainingly complex as it was, from time to time, annoyingly daft. The Herald, Mixed-up messages on the mobey, DAVID BELCHER, March 26 2007   retrench [ ri-TRENCH ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to reduce, cut down or curtail 2. (tr. v.) to delete or remove 3. (intr. v.) to economize or scrimp   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His orders retrenched the supplies reaching the branch offices.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The decision will enable companies, having up to 1,000 employees, to retrench without getting prior approval from the government. The Times of India, Corporate India welcomes labour law amendments, 22 Feb 2002   precursor [ pri-KUR-ser, PREE-kur- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. predecessor or forerunner 2. a harbinger or indicator of someone's arrival 3. (chemistry) a compound formed as a result of a chemical reaction that during the course of the reaction changes into another compound 4. (biology) a substance that gives rise to another substance   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The dark clouds were a precursor to an early monsoon.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The study was led by investigators from the University of Toronto, who randomly assigned 440 postmenopausal women with osteopenia, the precursor to full blown osteoporosis, to either a high dose of vitamin K1 daily or a placebo for comparison purposes. The Times of India, 'Vitamin K may not prevent bone loss', 14 Oct 2008   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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