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	08-Aug-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists mulct [ muhlkt ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) penalty or fine 2. (tr.v.) to punish or penalize by means of a fine 3. (tr.v.) to swindle or extract or obtain money by trickery or fraudulent means   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   A mulct was levied on travellers carrying alcohol.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It would certainly be ungenerous to mulct the Queen for the cost. Telegraph, Victoria was not amused over paying Jubilee bill, By Michael Smith, 26 Jul 2001   hummock [ HUHM-uh' k ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a hillock, knoll or low hill 2. a mound, ridge or rise in an ice field 3. a tract of land that is fertile and rises above a marshy land   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The cottage was pleasantly situated beside a lush green hummock.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The "tanks" turned out to be crude dummies, drainage pipes stuck into hummocks of sand. Telegraph, Britons caught in terrifying hail of fire after fatal US mix-up in the sky, By Ben Fenton, 07 Feb 2007   impute [ im-PYOOT ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to ascribe, assign, attribute or credit 2. to blame, charge with, accuse   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was imputed to complete the task.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The difficulty is that it's very hard to impute any precise financial figure for benefits to a city. BBC, The Olympics and the need to make money, By Stephen Evans, 6 July, 2005   fret [ fret ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr.v.) to brood or express discontent or worry 2. (intr.v.) to gnaw into, corrode or erode 3. (tr.v.) to vex, trouble or annoy 4. (tr.v.) to erode or corrode away or gnaw into 5. (n.) a mental state of being vexed, annoyed or irritated 6. (n.) erosion or corrosion   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His nature caused him to frown upon the world and fret in a show of discontent.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   After years of wearing down metal frets and having pieces of his guitar rip off or malfunction during shows, Van Halen says he's built a guitar that even he can't destroy. CNN, Eddie Van Halen reinvents the guitar, By Denise Quan, February 4, 2009   gorge [ gawrj ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a ravine or narrow passage or cleft that has rocky sides 2. (n.) one's gullet or throat 3. (tr.v.) to eat, stuff or devour food greedily 4. (intr.v.) to greedily consume food   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   This particular gorge was considered to be the deepest in the world.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Hundreds of tourists filed out of tour buses, trains and other vehicles Thursday, destined to view the mile-deep gorge well known around the world. abcNews, Grand Canyon Celebrates 90th Year as National Park, By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press Writer, February 27, 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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