TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 08-Feb-13

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	08-Feb-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists infirmity [ in-FUR-mi-tee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. frailty or feebleness 2. foible or moral failing 3. ailment or malady   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Infirmity is one of the disadvantages of old age.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The European Court of Human Rights has agreed to consider as a matter or urgency whether to free a convicted French war criminal because of age and infirmity. BBC, Maurice Papon bids for freedom, 23 January 2001   veer [ veer ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr.v.) to shift or change direction from one position or course to another 2. (intr.v.) to shift clockwise in direction 3. (tr.v.) to turn or change direction of 4. (n.) a swerve or change in direction   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   During the meeting, the manager veered off course and began to discuss the recent news.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A device worn like a MP3 player could help correct balance problems by signalling when the wearer starts to veer off course. BBC, Sound advice for balance problems, By Marina Murphy, 19 September 2005   palpability [  PAL-puh'-buh'l-it-ee  ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) the act of sensing by touch   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Many people prefer reading a book to an e-book to appease their sense of palpability.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The reader yearns for the spirit to be allowed to inform artistic endeavour, and not be forced into doing so by an insistence on the palpability of the spirits at the expense of the fleshy and earthy. The Telegraph, A parable the size of a housebrick, 16 August 2007   descry [ di-SKRAHY ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to discover, find out or detect 2. (tr.v.) to discern or see 3. (n.) a discovery or finding   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He descried the treasure in the cave.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Department of Transport vehicle examiner Christopher Ennea descried the lorry as "unroadworthy". BBC, Runaway lorry crushed teenager, 15 April, 2004   wan [ won ]   [ adjective, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) pallid, languid, pale or sickly 2. (adj.) melancholic, fatigued or weary 3. (tr.v.) to become languid or pale 4. (intr.v.) to become pallid or dull   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His wan face worried his mother.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In the wan light of a snowy spring morning, belongings scattered on the floor of an abandoned kindergarten speak of a time before the children of Pripyat lost their innocence. National Geographic, The Long Shadow of Chernobyl, By Richard Stone, April 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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