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	01-May-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists recalcitrant [ ri-KAL-si-truh' nt ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) resistant to or defiant of control or authority 2. (adj.) difficult to deal with or manage; unresponsive; resistant 3. (n.)a recalcitrant person   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The recalcitrant school boys in the inner cities of America make teaching there an unpleasant occupation.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Yet Mr Ross Goobey never saw himself as a policeman keeping recalcitrant bosses in check—more a proud capitalist who wanted to see capitalism work properly. Economist, The war on corpocracy, Feb 12th 2008   disputatious [ dis-pyoo'-TEY-shuh's ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. inclined to be argumentative or contentious 2. given to being disagreeable   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Management and labour could not reconcile their differences because of the disputatious union leader.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The Scots are, as the late Willie Ross (Scottish Secretary in the 1970s) once said, a disputatious people. BBC, McConnell tells of new confidence, 9 October 2004,   sylvan [ SIL-vuh'n  ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) pertaining to, consisting of or abounding in the trees 2. (adj.) living in the woods 3. (n.) a person who dwells in the woods 3. (n.) the spirit of the woods   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The children were warned that if they misbehaved sylvan creatures would come out of the woods and carry them away.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Crossing the Aberaeron road, there is a quiet road up to Falcondale Lake and a walk takes up one side of this sylvan setting. BBC, Weatherman Walking: Lampeter 3, 27 February 2007.   legend [ LEJ-uh'nd  ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. any unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical 2. an inscription 3. a collection of stories about a great person   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The old man told the little children the legend of the farmer's son who became king by slaying the dragon.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Legend has it that Friar Tuck poisoned King John in Newark Castle as revenge for the murder of Maid Marian. BBC, The legend of Robin Hood, 2 March 2010.   chafe [ cheyf ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to vex, irritate or annoy 2. (tr.v.) to rub (esp. hands) and make warm 3. (tr.v.) to abrade or make sore by rubbing 4. (intr.v.) to wear away or become sore as a result of rubbing 5. (intr.v.) to irritate, annoy or vex 6. (n.) annoyance, vexation or irritation 7. (n.) soreness or warmth due to friction   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The rough cloth chafed his skin raw.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   They continue to chafe under the inefficiency, corruption and red tape of their unusual system of government. BBC, Libyans mark Gaddafi anniversary, By Roger Hardy , 2 March 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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