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	12-Apr-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists aperture [ AP-er-cher ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a hole or opening 2. the adjustable opening in an optical instrument   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   When he peered through the aperture, he saw a strange world entirely different from the one in which he lived.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Nasa used such an approach, called coded aperture imaging, for the Swift satellite that was sent aloft to spot gamma ray sources. BBC, Sky-high system to aid soldiers, 12 August 2008.   coiffure [ kwah-FYOO'R; Fr. kwa-FYR  ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a style of arranging the hair 2. (n.) a fashionable hairstyle 3. (tr. v.) to style the hair 3. (tr. v.) to provide with a hairstyle   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She had an elegant coiffure, perfectly manicured nails and was dressed in a beautiful evening gown with matching Cinderella like glass slippers.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   With his groomed coiffure, dazzling teeth and excessive makeup, Dobbs is almost a parody of the archetypal anchor man, but for years earlier in his CNN career presented of a conventional business programme, Moneyline. The Telegraph, The most influential US conservatives: 80-61, Toby Harnden, 12 January 2010.   meddlesome [ MED-l-suh'm ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. inclined to interfere 2. given to being intrusive   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The teacher scolded the meddlesome student and warned him to mind his own business.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   We are not the ones being meddlesome and troublesome in Iraq. CNN, Senators to Bush: Stay out of Iran, 11 January 2007.   benignant [ bi-NIG-nuh' nt ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. kind and gracious, especially to inferiors 2. beneficial or benign   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She was a benignant lady who was loved by her employees.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It is natural to think in polarities, so we think of plants as good or bad, benignant or malignant. Telegraph, Country notebook: continuing controversy, By Germaine Greer, 03 Mar 2003   exorbitant [ ig-ZAWR-bi-tuh' nt ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   excessive or exceeding bounds of propriety or fairness   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   People protested against the exorbitant salaries pulled by the management.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   BCCI feels that the ICC can administer the game globally without hiring people on exorbitant salaries. The Times of India, BCCI to raise ICC fee issue in Dubai, 3 Jun 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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