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	12-Feb-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists sallow [ SAL-oh ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) a sickly, yellow shade or hue of yellow 2. (tr.v.) to cause something to become sallow 3. (n.) a broad-leaved willow   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His sallow skin indicated that he had been sick for a long time.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The plants they really clobber include ash, hazel, and sallow. And it's characteristic of all woods with high deer densities that bramble gets heavily browsed. National Geographic, Deer Behind Britain's Great Bird Decline?, James Owen in the United Kingdom for National Geographic News, March 3, 2003   fret [ fret ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr.v.) to brood or express discontent or worry 2. (intr.v.) to gnaw into, corrode or erode 3. (tr.v.) to vex, trouble or annoy 4. (tr.v.) to erode or corrode away or gnaw into 5. (n.) a mental state of being vexed, annoyed or irritated 6. (n.) erosion or corrosion   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His nature caused him to frown upon the world and fret in a show of discontent.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   After years of wearing down metal frets and having pieces of his guitar rip off or malfunction during shows, Van Halen says he's built a guitar that even he can't destroy. CNN, Eddie Van Halen reinvents the guitar, By Denise Quan, February 4, 2009   atypical [ ey-TIP-i-kuh'l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. not normal or not typical 2. not conforming to a particular type or classification 3. unusual or irregular   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   At the meeting, the psychiatrist explained to the teachers that when an abused child displays atypical behaviour it is actually a cry for help.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Widely used guidance from the Maudsley Hospital in London has just been updated and it recommends that all patients diagnosed with schizophrenia should routinely be put on an atypical anti-psychotic. BBC, Doctors 'ration best mental health drugs', 8 October 2000.   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   vigilance [ VIJ-uh-luhns ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. watchfulness or alertness 2. (pathology) insomnia   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Mad-Eye Moody, a character in the Harry Potter series, always advised "constant vigilance" when defending oneself against one's adversaries.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The new resolution requires states to "exercise vigilance" over the direct or indirect supply, sale or transfer to North Korea of small arms or light weapons. CNN, Defiant North Korea 'to weaponize plutonium', June 13, 2009   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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