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	17-Jun-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists cipher [ SAHY-fer ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) zero 2. (n.) a coded or coded message 3. (n.) a nonentity or one having no importance or value 4. (n.) a number or figure in Arabic 5. (intr.v.) to encode 6. (intr.v.) to calculate arithmetically 7. (tr.v.) to encipher or encode 8. (tr.v.) to compute or calculate arithmetically   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Analysts stayed up the entire night trying to unravel the cipher.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Three German ciphers unsolved since World War II are finally being cracked, helped by thousands of home computers. BBC, Online amateurs crack Nazi codes, By Adam Blenford , 2 March 2006   culvert [ KUHL-vert ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a sewer, drain or channel 2. a bridge or embankment over such a drain   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Uncovered culverts are dangerous in the monsoon season.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   An estimated 80 per cent of houses have been badly damaged or destroyed and cars remain mired in slime or have half-disappeared into collapsed culverts. Telegraph, Devastated Haiti reels after unprecedented fourfold storm battering, by Philip Sherwell, 23 Sep 2008   decrepit [ di-KREP-it ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or long use   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The decrepit house has been termed dangerous by the housing authority.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Why did it take an hour for decrepit fire engines to reach the blazing supermarket? Economist, Double trouble, Feb 5th 2009   abscond [ ab-SKOND ]   [ intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   to depart quickly in a sudden and secret manner; especially to avoid arrest or legal prosecution   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   It is difficult to catch criminals who successfully abscond from a high security prison.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Police are hunting a prisoner who has absconded from Hollesley Bay open prison in Suffolk. BBC, Latest inmate absconds from jail, 10 December 2007   actuate [ AK-choo-eyt ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to bring about, incite, induce or activate 2. to start or set into action   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He actuated the riot by pelting the police with stones.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The Radio Authority, which has recently repeated its opposition to religious broadcasting, cannot possibly be actuated by such fears. Telegraph, For heaven's sake, why do they ban Christian radio?, By Boris Johnson, 23 Aug 2001   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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