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	21-Apr-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists brocade [ broh-KEYD  ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) fabric woven with an elaborate raised pattern or design 2. (n.) a heavy fabric interwoven with a raised design 3. (tr. v.) to weave with an elaborate raised design   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His drawing room was augmented by rich brocade curtains.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The Queen wore a beautiful, pale gold and soft turquoise, silk brocade jacket and matching dress, by Angela Kelly, which was perfectly in tune, both with her own regal signature and with the fashion swing-shift away from the safe LBD, as the omnipresent solution to serious dressing-up. The Telegraph, Queen gives royal seal of approval to British fashion, Hilary Alexander, 17 March 2010.   crevice [ Krev-is ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a crack, fissure or cleft   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The crevice had broadened due to the continuous onslaught of the rain.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Dozens of brightly painted elves, birds and animals cavort and play in the crevices of the barkless old stump. Telegraph, A monumental journey through the capital, 30 Oct 2008   eddy [ ED-ee ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a whirlpool or a current of water that moves contrary to the main current 2. (n.) a drift from the main current 3. (tr.v.) to whirl, move or turn in eddies   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The eddy slowed their progress.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The current is an eddy of very deep, very warm water that moves north from the Caribbean Sea into the eastern Gulf of Mexico before turning southeast and exiting the Gulf via the Straits of Florida. National Geographic, Gustav Now Major Hurricane -- And Picking Up Steam, 9 July 2009, accessed 9 July 2009   nip [ nip ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to pinch or bite 2. (tr. v.) to check the growth or development of 3. (intr. v.) to dart 4. (intr. v.) to take a sip or sips of alcoholic liquor 5. (n.) a small quantity of liquor   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   While he was asleep, the rat nipped his toe.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The RBA is recalibrating policy now that the big recession it feared was nipped in the bud by the happy combination of good luck and good management. CNN, Australia raises rates from 49-year low, 6 November 2009.   dialectic [ dahy-uh'-LEK-tik ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) the practice or art of reasoning logically and determining the validity of statements 2. (n.) logical argumentation 3. (adj.) pertaining to, of or characterized by logical argumentation   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Dialectic is a fast becoming popular with youngsters.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It is a sign of change in the traditional Venetian dialectic between doing and not doing. CNN, Venice to have modern makeover, By Craig Francis, CNN.com Europe writer, December 7, 2000   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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