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	25-Feb-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists unearthly [ uhn-URTH-lee ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. seeming not to belong to this world 2. supernatural 3. unreasonable or uncustomary   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She screamed in such and unearthly voice that it scared the entire household.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   His bemused clients were then asked to sign statements confirming that they witnessed him "controlling a voice or set of voices that are unearthly in nature". The Telegraph, Jaycee Lee Dugard: Phillip Garrido and the 'unearthly' voices, John Bingham, 28 August 2009.   whelp [ hwelp, welp ]   [ noun, verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) the young of any mammal 2. (n.) a despised youth or an impudent young person 3. (n.) the teeth of a sprocket wheel 4. (v.) to give birth to   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The lioness watched over her whelps as they playfully tumbled in the grass.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He had described the heroine as appearing "like a tigress robbed of her whelps". The Telegraph, Many a good book is undone by its cock-ups, Christopher Howse, 21 April 2010.   slough [ slou or sluhf ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr.v.) to get shed or cast off 2. (tr.v.) to dispose off, get rid of or shed 3. (n.) swamplike region 4. (n.) a condition or state of degradation or helplessness 5. (n.) the outer layer of a snake's skin, which it periodically casts off   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The electoral candidate sloughed off her former campaign workers as she felt they were the cause of her loss during the previous elections.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The supreme leader declared last week's presidential election a "definitive victory" for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and sloughed off charges of vote tampering. CNN, Iran's supreme leader warns protesters, 19 June 2009.   interregnum [ in-ter-REG-nuh'm ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. an interval of time between the close of a sovereign's reign and the accession of a legitimate successor 2. any period during which a state has a temporary executive in place of a ruler 3. any period of freedom or interruption in continuity from the usual authority   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   After the king's death, there was an interregnum of a month before the prince was officially crowned.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The bad news may be that, after the brief Dubya interregnum, a second Clinton regime lies just down the road. CNN, Hillary's first step to a second Clinton White House, 23 October 2000.   scintilla [ sin-TIL-uh' ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a spark, flash or a miniscule particle 2. an iota or miniscule amount   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   A scintilla of attraction is often enough for people to fall in love.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He said prosecutors had offered "not one scintilla of proof" otherwise. CNN, More protests planned over acquittal of officers in Diallo case, February 26, 2000   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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