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	05-Oct-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists inane [ i-NEYN ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. vacant, insubstantial or empty 2. silly, stupid or foolish   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The journalist's inane questions irritated the visiting Head of state.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Although Australian Wayne Grady has never been one of my favourite sports commentators, the former golf pro sank even lower in my esteem with his inane remark about the heavy Scots accent of Bob Torrance, who coaches Open champion Padraig Harrington. The Herald, Grady should kept his antipodean antics quiet   progenitor [ proh-JEN-i-ter ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. an ancestor or a forefather 2. an originator, precursor, predecessor or founder   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He is one of the contenders to the title of the progenitor of impressionism.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The temperate, tolerant Western Europeans are handing themselves over to the leading progenitor of war, slavery, and civilizational disaster of the past fourteen centuries: Islam. Chronicles magzine, The Eurabian Revolution, by Gregory M. Davis   limpid [ LIM-pid ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. transparent, crystal clear 2. lucid and simple 3. calm, serene or free of stress   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The limpid pool offered a clear view of the moss-covered bed.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Her mad scene is notable for limpid phrasing and crystalline high notes but most of all for long stretches of otherworldly calm, punctuated by an outburst of deranged laughter and one gut-wrenching scream. abcNEWS, Review: Dessay Shines as 'Lucia' in San Francisco, By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press Writer, SAN FRANCISCO June 22, 2008   motley [ MOT-lee ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a heterogeneous mixture or combination 2. (n.) a jester's parti-coloured garb 3. (adj.) varied, heterogeneous or diverse   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The bouquet contained a motley of colours, namely reds, pinks and yellows.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Arthur Wakefield described the team of porters on one early expedition as "a motley throng of old men, women, boys and girls." National Geographic, The Sherpas of Mount Everest, By Brian Handwerk, May 10, 2002   hector [ HEK-ter ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a bully 2. (intr. v.) to dominate or intimidate in a loud manner 3. (tr. v.) to behave like a bully   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Politicians who hector each other in the "Big Fight" on NDTV make for amusing viewing.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The amusing conservatives who hector one another on Rupert Murdoch's Fox News were shouting a little louder yesterday morning. The Herald, The anti-war candidate may yet be belligerent, by IAN BELL, July 23 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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