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	15-May-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists flaccid [ FLAK-sid, FLAS-id ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. soft, flabby or lacking firmness 2. feeble or deficient in vigour, energy or force   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The mud bank became a flaccid surface after the rains.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The close affairs, however, do not denote tantalizing fare or uplifting strokeplay/spells: both the games were played on flaccid pitches, making bowlers look like pie-chuckers. The Times of India, Pitch not right for Ranji venues, by Bobilli Vijay Kumar, 11 Jan 2009   interstice [ in-TUR-stis ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a crevice, crack or free space between two things 2. a time-interval   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The interstice was filled up using cement.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The measure of success would be a notch higher if some practical partnerships emerge in the interstices of the meetings. BBC, Dialogue needed on internet's future, By Nitin Desai, 30 October 2006   culmination [ kuhl-muh'-NEY-shuh' n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. climax, highest degree, peak or acme 2. completion or end 3. an act or instance of culminating   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The culmination of his career came in 1978.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It is the most amazing culmination to what has been quite a year for me. Hamilton said BBC, Hoy knighted in New Year honours, 31 December 2008   curator [ kyoo'-REY-ter, KYOO' R-ey- ; KYOO' R-uh-ter ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a manager, superintendent or a person in charge 2. on who is a legal guardian of a person who is a minor, lunatic or is incompetent in some other way to take care of his/her property   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The curator of the museum was a respected man.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A curator checks artifacts at the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad on March 17, 2008. National Geographic, Iraq Museum Still Too Damaged to Reopen, January 7, 2009   fractious [ FRAK-shuh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. unruly, troublesome or rebellious 2. irritable, quarrelsome or peevish   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The fractious child had no friends.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Even in the fractious world of Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China relations, to fix a beauty pageant for patriotic reasons might be a first. Telegraph, Hong Kong TV station admits Miss Asia 2008 result altered, By Richard Spencer, 17 Dec 2008   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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