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	26-Apr-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists legato [ luh'-GAH-toh ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. smooth and connected 2. having no breaks between successive notes 3. in a smooth style without any breaks between the notes   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The legato tunes that he played on his violin had a soothing effect on all the listeners.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   This is a beautiful lyric tenor, such beautiful legato, so musical. BBC, Cardiff Singer of the world 2005, 24 November 2009.   loath [ lohth, lohth  ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. an extreme dislike for 2. averse or reluctant 3. unwilling   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He loathes having to do his homework before going out to play.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   As one senior Foreign Office minister put it on the Today programme, the Government is loath to match the IRA propaganda blow by blow. BBC, Television – The Evil Eye? Richard Francis, 14 July 1981.   perfidious [ per-FID-ee-uh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   untrustworthy and treacherous   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Many feel that the Maastricht treaty of 1992 was orchestrated by a power hungry and perfidious group of multinational companies.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   We ended up talking about science as much as technology, but the audience was happy. And anti-globalization campaigners who view the Forum as a perfidious cabal of power-hungry corporatists can take consolation. CNN, Voices on the future, Scientists, technologists share their insights, By David Kirkpatrick   patois [ PAT-wah ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a regional dialect 2. jargon or the special language used by a particular group   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Although he could speak French fluently, he found it difficult to understand the patois spoken by the locals in the South of France.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Their songs were a magical blend of chanson francais, Provencal patois, reggae and ragamuffin detailing everyday scenes of Marseille life from the batiments to the football terraces. CNN, Biography: Massilia Sound System. 22 December 2006.   welt [ welt  ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a ridge on the skin caused by whip or cane 2. (n.) a strip of leather stitched into a shoe between the upper and the sole 3. (n.) a blow or lash which produces a ridge on the body 4. (tr. v.) to flog or beat soundly 5. (tr. v.) to reinforce with a welt 6. (intr. v.) to be marked with welts   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The jockey was fined for indiscriminately whipping his horse during the race thereby causing welts on its flanks.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Some will bear the scars, in the form of welts shaped like the drain, on their bodies forever. CNN, Some ignore law to prevent pools from being child deathtraps, Mallory Simon, 15 January 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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