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	01-Jun-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists affray [ uh'-FREY ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a public fray, brawl or fight 2. (tr.v.) to scare or frighten   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The police were called to put an end to the affray.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Police have registered a case under IPC section 160, which refers to affray, a public fight that causes disturbance. The Times of India,Family claims black magic used on them, 12 Jan 2009   salubrious [ suh'-LOO-bree-uh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. healthful, wholesome or conducive to well-being   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   It is important to eat a salubrious diet.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It was quoted as having "salubrious cuisine" and being "nearby." abcNews, Showbiz Commentary: Heidi Oringer, By Heidi Oringer, March 7   staccato [ stuh'-KAH-toh ]   [ noun, adjective, adverb ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) composed of or marked by disconnected, disjointed, short and abrupt sounds 2. (adv.) in a staccato way or manner 3. (n.) a passage, performance or speech that is staccato   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The staccato beep woke up everyone.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The staccato plucking on guitar strings in the beginning of the track sounded quite realistic CNN, Great headphones for home, by Philip Ryan, April 7, 2008   variegated [ VAIR-ee-i-gey-tid, VAIR-i-gey- ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. multicoloured or having streaks or patches of various colours 2. varied or diverse   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His variegated T-shirt was eye-catching.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Our small populations of Kurdish Americans have nothing to fear from the variegated Americans around them. CNN, Tyrrell: Columbus Day, October 5, 2006   chaff [ chaf, chahf ]   [ noun, verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) thin dry bracts or scales, especially a. those enclosing mature grains of wheat and other cereal grasses, removed during threshing b. borne on the receptacle among the small individual flowers of many plants in the composite family 2. (n.) finely cut hay or straw used as fodder 3. (n.) trivial or worthless matter 4. (n.) strips of metal, foil or glass fibres, and having varying frequency responses, ejected into the air for reflecting radar waves- as a radar countermeasure 5. (v.) to tease in a good natured way, banter   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The fodder for the cows consisted mainly of chaff and dried grass.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   As such, its getting progressively more difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak. BBC, Sybarite Placement Issues, by Olli Siebelt, 20 November 2002   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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