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	03-Mar-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists veracious [ vuh'-REY-shuh's ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. honest, sincere or truthful 2. true, accurate, precise or genuine   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was considered to be a veracious young man.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   One veracious youngster, clearly not happy with his stash, then asked him for his cap. Telegraph, Young Sports Writer Competition, 16 Jan 2004   desiccant [ DES-i-kuh' nt ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a substance like calcium chloride that has a great affinity for water and hence used as a drying agent 2. (adj.) drying   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   A desiccant is recommended to be kept in the testing room to ensure a dry environment.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The desiccated remains were found in labelled plastic bags and unsealed hardboard coffins at the base near al-Zubayr in southern Iraq. BBC, Unnamed Iraqi graves found, 21 April, 2003   defiance [ di-FAHY-uh' ns ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. bold resistance or opposition to authority 2. challenge   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   All of their defiance was proved useless as the rebellion was crushed.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The protests were held in open defiance of warnings issued Friday by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the country's Security Council. CNN, Chaos prevails as protesters, police clash in Iranian capital, June 21, 2009   impair [ im-PAIR ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to cause to diminish in strength or value 2. (intr. v.) to become worse   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The doctor said it was cataract that had impaired his vision.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The research, details of which were announced at the British Association's Festival of Science in Sheffield, UK, indicates that drastic dieting can impair memory and slow reaction times. BBC, Crash dieting 'makes you thick, 16 September 1999.   coalesce [ koh-uh'-LES ]   [ intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr. v.) to combine to form one unit 2. (intr. v.) to blend or unify 3. (intr. v.) to merge or amalgamate   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Three political parties could coalesce to form the government as none of them were able to achieve a majority independently.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   These particles may help water droplets to coalesce, and so aid the formation of clouds. BBC, More doubt on cosmic climate link, Richard Black, 18 April 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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