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	25-Mar-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists affray [ uh'-FREY ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a public fray, brawl or fight 2. (tr.v.) to scare or frighten   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The police were called to put an end to the affray.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Police have registered a case under IPC section 160, which refers to affray, a public fight that causes disturbance. The Times of India,Family claims black magic used on them, 12 Jan 2009   disheveled [ di-SHEV-uh' ld ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   unkempt or marked by disarray or disorder   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His dishevelled appearance scared the children   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Tbilisi is an old, disheveled jewel of a city, squeezed into a narrow gorge in the shadow of the vast Caucasus mountain range. BBC, Foreigners beware in Georgia, By the BBC's Andrew Harding, 24 June, 2001   derogatory [ di-ROG-uh'-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   disparaging, depreciatory or belittling   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The derogatory remarks shocked everyone.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Jolene Plomer, a former official for Portsmouth FC women's youth team, was fined £50 pounds for putting derogatory remarks about a league official on Facebook after one of the team's games. Telegraph, Football club official 'fined by FA for posting abusive comments on Facebook', 25 May 2009   alluvial [ uh'-LOO-vee-uh'l ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a type of mud 2. (adj.) pertaining to the sediment deposited by flowing water   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Farmers of the Indo-Gangetic plain produce bountiful crops because of the fertile alluvial soil.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   One man escaped after falling into a cave as army sharp shooters sprayed the diggers with automatic fire in an alluvial diamond field, in a tribal area, about 20 miles north east of Mutare, near the Mozambique border. The Telegraph, Zimbabwe army guns down 12 people searching for diamonds, Peta Thornycroft, 21 November 2008.   maelstrom [ MEYL-struh' m ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a powerful, turbulent whirlpool that sucks in objects within a given area of its radius 2. a violent, turbulent, tumultuous or disordered situation   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Astronomers are yet to decipher the maelstrom that occurs around a black hole.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Also, as is obvious from pictures of active galaxies such as Centaurus A, it is difficult to see into the maelstrom around the actual black hole, which is shrouded by in-falling matter. University of Oxford, Violent galaxies 'spew out' energetic cosmic rays, 7 November 2007   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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