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	15-Apr-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists embellish [  em-BEL-ish ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to add fanciful or fictitious details to 2. to decorate or adorn   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He embellished data on his loan application.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A CV is an advert; it is not a legal document, and as such it is not illegal to embellish it. BBC, The CV detectives, Tom Geoghegan, 2 August 2005, accessed 9July 2009   affiliation [ uh'-fil-ee-EY-shuh'n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the act of being adopted as a member 2. the state of being accepted as an associate or subsidiary   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   After resigning the Director openly stated that he had no further affiliation with the company.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Leaders of the Greek Orthodox Church have warned they'll fight a government decision to remove religious affiliation from national identity cards. BBC, Greek conflict between modernity and Orthodoxy, 15 May 2000.   circumvent [ sur-kuhm-VENT, SUR-kuhm-vent  ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to avoid, bypass or go around 2. to encircle or entrap or surround   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She circumvented the issue of marriage by passing a witty remark.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   And David Grossman will be exploring some of the challenges facing public libraries - will they be circumvented by digital technology and what is the future of local authority funding? BBC,UPDATE - MORE DETAILS, 15 March 2010.   comestible [ kuh'-MES-tuh'-buh' l ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) edible; fit to be eaten; eatable 2. (n.) articles of food; something that can be eaten as food   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Seeing a comestible meal, after being lost in the jungle for two days, made his mouth water.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Deadly brew sugar-cane juice is the other comestible identified by the mcd as dangerous, and hence banned for the six summer months. The Times of India, It's time again for cool foods, illness,by Anuradha Mukherjee, 8 Apr 2002   egress [ n. EE-gres; v. i-GRES ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) emergence or coming out 2. (n.) exit 3. (n.) the right to leave 4. (tr.v.) to emerge   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His egress from jail was watched live the world over.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The College has trained staff present that are able to use an evacuation chair for the safe egress of disabled visitors during an emergency. University of Oxford, Templeton College, 24 June 2004, accessed 9 July 2009   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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