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	12-Jan-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists disquisition [ dis-kwuh'-ZISH-uh'n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a formal dissertation 2. a treatise or discourse on a subject   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The disquisition did not achieve its objective as a consensus could not be formed.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   His books are beautiful headache machines crammed with dense disquisitions on, say, virtual reality or the genetic code or the history of soap. CNN, Review: 'Our Singing' a cool breeze, Troy Patterson, 23 January 2003.   turgid [ TUR-jid ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. swollen, bloated or tumid 2. pompous, grandiloquent or extremely ornate   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The turgid boil on his foot required medical attention.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   With the police, courts and prosecution being openly biased, criminal cases against the accused are sinking like stones in a turgid pool. The Times of India, Unfinished justice, 22 Mar 2007   turpitude [ TUR-pi-tood, -tyood ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. vileness, depravity or a shameful character 2. an act that is vile or shameful in nature   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The turpitude behind his actions was finally exposed for all to see.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The committee held them guilty of various charges of doubtful integrity, alcoholism, moral turpitude and professional incompetence. The Times of India, Judgement Day: 28 judges sent packing, Manjari Mishra, May 1, 2005   declivity [ di-KLIV-i-tee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a slope or inclination showing a downward trend   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The car sped up on the declivity causing her to brake often.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Her keen eyes discern a slight darkening of the colour of the green crop in a declivity either side of it, a sign of where it would have run. Telegraph, Clues for landscape detectives, Jack Watkins, 03 Mar 2003   paradox [ PAR-uh'-doks ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. one that is self-contradictory or absurd, yet true 2. one that exhibits contradictory qualities 3. an assertion that contradicts itself or may seem to do so although it has been deduced or based on logic   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Her writings were a paradox which swayed between two extremes like a pendulum.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It is a tragic paradox that people who have exceptional educational skills should be without avenues for upward social and economic mobility. The Times of India, Kerala Paradox, August 14, 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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