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	30-Mar-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists accost [ uh'-KAWST, uh'-KOST ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to confront or speak boldly or aggressively to 2. (tr.v.) to solicit for sexual gratification 3. (n.) a greeting   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was accosted by the thief and asked to hand over his money.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   They accost or harass women who aren't wearing the traditional robe and head scarf known as the hijab. abcNews, Iraqi Women Targeted by Campaign of Violence, By TROY MCMULLEN, Nov. 15, 2007   martinet [ mahr-tn-ET, MAHR-tn-et ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. one who is strict and a disciplinarian, especially one in the military 2. one who rigidly conforms to rules and forms   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The staff sergeant was a strict martinet and therefore unpopular with the raw recruits unaccustomed to the rigours of army life.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Typical of the off-center humor that propels "The Band's Visit," it is the martinet bandleader and not the self-styled Chet Baker who has caught the eye of the cafe owner. Los Angeles Times, 'The Band's Visit', BY JAN STUART, February 8, 2008   plight [ plahyt ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) an unfortunate situation 2. (n.) a situation or predicament 3. (tr. v.) to pledge or to bind by a pledge   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   People donated in cash and kind after hearing of the sorry plight of the victims of the tsunami.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He describes the plight of villagers who lost everything to the floods. BBC, India floods: 'Misery everywhere', 5 October 2009.   whorl [ hwurl, hwawrl, wurl, wawrl  ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a circular arrangement of like parts around a point on an axis 2. shaped like a coil or spiral 3. a circular ridge or convolution of a fingerprint   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Fresh flowers were affixed to the backdrop in decorative whorls.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It hides under bracken, and has finished flowering now, but the leaves were quite distinctive, an untidy whorl of bright green smooth leaves. BBC, Botany, 30 June 2008.   dissolution [ dis-uh'-LOO-shuh' n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. disintegration, decay or decomposition 2. death 3. liquefaction 4. termination or annulment   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Dissolution of the law is the need of the hour.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Many Cubans thought they'd left behind forever the grim, hungry days that were the norm just after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and, with it, the loss of billions of dollars in subsidies for the Communist state. CNN, Hurricanes sweep food shortages back into Cubans' lives, From Morgan Neill CNN Havana Bureau Chief, October 7, 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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