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	16-Jun-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists abstinence [ AB-stuh'-nuh'ns ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. voluntary forbearance from any indulgence of appetite, particularly from the use of alcoholic beverages 2. any self-denial, forbearance or self-restraint   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Abstinence is often required to balance the body equilibrium.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   On each subsequent day, they were instructed to add an additional hour of abstinence and an additional piece of gum. abcNews, Chewing Through a Smoking Habit, By JOHN G. SPANGLER, M.D., Jan. 31, 2009   bete noire [ beyt NWAHR; Fr. bet NWAR* ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a person or thing especially disliked or to be avoided 2. bugbear, bane   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She was termed a bete noire and shunned for life.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Kadhafi, who for years was Washington's bete noire, underscored what he said was the "need to give an historic world opportunity to President Obama and the new America ... to permit the new America to be a state that is loving of peoples and freedom." The Times of India, Libya's Kadhafi says Obama means a 'new America', 22 January 2009   amiss [ uh'-MIS ]   [ adjective, adverb ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) out of order, faulty, improper or imperfect 2. (adv.) wrongly, faultily, imperfectly or in a mistaken manner   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The amiss setting of the cutlery angered her.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   There were ample warnings that something was amiss, a long time before the banks collapsed. BBC, Waking up to reality in Iceland, By Jon Danielsson, 26 January 2009   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   dimunition [ dim-uh'-NOO-shuh' n, -NYOO- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the process or the act of lessening or reducing 2. (music) variation of a subject or theme by reducing esp. halving the time period of notes   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The dimunition of firearms is an important step in the peace process.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Production of drought-tolerant crops able to grow under restricted-water regimes without dimunition of yield would minimize drought-related losses and ensure food production in water-limited lands The Times of India, Plants that can beat drought, 28 Nov 2007   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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