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	28-Mar-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists fleck [ flek ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a speck 2. (n.) a spot or small patch 3. (tr. v.) to mark with a spot   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She did a thorough job of cleaning the kitchen and not a fleck of dust was left.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In late spring bluebells fleck the woodland floor with shimmering blue and the white flowers of wild garlic give the air a pungent smell BBC, Pwll-y-wrach, 11 November 2009.   ebb [ eb  ]   [ noun, intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) the flowing back of the wave as water returns to the sea 2. (n.) regression, decay or decline 3. (n.) a point of decline 4. (intr. v.) to flow back or away from 5. (intr. v.) to fade or subside   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Taking unnecessary financial risks marked the ebb of his once illustrious career.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The Suez Crisis (1956), Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's reassessment of U.S.-Israeli relations (1975) and America's denial of housing loan guarantees to Israel (1991) saw relations at a much lower ebb, complete with the threat of sanctions -- and in 1991 the actual use of them. CNN, It won't be easy to restore trust between U.S. and Israel, Aaron David Miller, 17 March 2010.   lassitude [ LAS-i-tood, -tyood ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a feeling of fatigue or weariness, low on energy   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   People living in humid climates often feel a sense of lassitude.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Not home till between 9/10 pm, so little time for anything else but food and do the "black-outs", write this diary and sundries, Poor Kay dead tired: very yellow and suffering from lassitude. BBC Home, Wartime diary of a customs officer: Ch 25 - Mar and Apr 1943, Bryan Boniface, 26 November 2005   lumen [ LOO-muh'n  ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the unit of flux emitted by a point source of one candle intensity 2. the duct of a tubular organ 3. the cavity bounded by the cell wall in a plant   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The intensity or brightness of a light source is measured in lumens.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Check the lumen rating on the light you are replacing and purchase a compact fluorescent light bulb with the same lumen rating. BBC, Low-energy bulbs - a bright idea? 14 October 2009.   ocular [ OK-yuh'-ler ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   of or relating to the eye or the sense of vision   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   For most people, the prospect of ocular damage is a frightening one.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The sale of contact lenses cannot be treated just like any other business deal. It concerns the ocular (optical) health of the patient, which can be damaged by the very product supplied. BBC, Mail-order contact lens firm fined, 7 May, 1998   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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