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	23-Jul-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists beset [ bi-SET ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to stud 2. to assail, surround, hem in or attack 3. to harass or trouble   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   As the news of their engagement spread, they were beset with well-wishers.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   China has been beset by a series of food- and product-scares in recent years. abcNEWS, China Names "Western Liquors" in New Health Scare, January 16, 2009   cadaverous [ kuh-DAV-er-uh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. corpselike, haggard, ghastly or gaunt 2. pallid or livid   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The sighting of the cadaverous form managed to scare off everyone in the castle   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Today's forests stand in cadaverous contrast. abcNEWS, Ecologists Yielding to Nature's Fire Logic, by Joseph Verrengia, Aug. 18   annals [ AN-lz ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. yearly chronological record of events 2. chronicles or historical account or record 3. record or journal that contains reports of the activities transpiring in an organisation   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The annals of the war were very well documented.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   January 30 1972 - forever Bloody Sunday in the annals of the Troubles in Northern Ireland - was not the bloodiest day, but perhaps the most significant in helping to decide the direction and progress of the bitter conflict in the decades that followed. BBC, Long wait for Bloody Sunday report, by John Thorne, 7 November 2008   aria [ Ahr-ee-uh', Air-ee-uh' ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a melody, air, tune, oratorio or a cantata 2. a striking melody that is sung solo with accompaniment   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He is an expert at singing arias often haunting in nature.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A great, distant ship's horn, like a one-note aria. National Geographic, Online Extra, by Kevin Krajick, September 2003   cardinal [ KAHR-dn-l ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) chief, principal, paramount or of great importance 2. (adj.) having a vivid or bright red tinge 3. (n.) a rank among priests of the roman catholic church that is second only to the pope 4. (n.) a deep, vivid, bright and rich red colour   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   It is of cardinal significance to pay attention to one's mentors.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   To many observers, the big banks broke one of Wall Street's cardinal rules: Be greedy, but be greedy over the long term. abcNEWS, The Rise and (almost) Fall of America's Banks, by STEVENSON JACOBS and ERIN McCLAM, February 8, 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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