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	24-Oct-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists mishap [ MIS-hap, mis-HAP ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   an accident, misfortune or bad luck   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The mishap was caused due to the negligence of the driver.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The Air Force says the plane was heading back to its home base in Missouri when the mishap occurred. CNN, CNN Student News Transcript: February 25, 2008, February 25, 2008   skittish [ SKIT-ish ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. lively, capricious or restless 2. coy, shy or bashful 3. jumpy, restive, frightful or excitable 4. variable, uncertain, undependable or fickle   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The kitten was skittish and a little jittery.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   SUVs are not as equipped as sporty cars to travel safely at higher speeds -- and sporty cars tend to get skittish much more readily when it snows. CNN, Safe driving rules everyone should follow, By Eric Peters, November 28, 2008   abase [ uh'-BEYS ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to humble or reduce in rank or esteem 2. to degrade   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He decided to resign after he was abased by his manager.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Henry is supposed to have abased himself before his father in a cloak full of needles to signify thrifty intentions and to have earned, in return, a touching benediction. BBC, The Myth of Henry V, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, 5 November 2009.   bungle [ BUHNG-guh' l ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr. v.) to work clumsily or awkwardly 2. (tr.v.) to handle or perform clumsily 3. (n.) to botch; a work that is done ineptly or clumsily   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The government made a bungle in providing adequate coastal security resulting in the deadly 26/11 attacks taking place.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Junior doctors are meeting in London just days after the latest bungle involving the new system for assigning specialist training posts. The Herald, Junior doctors furious over recruitment 'shambles', HELEN PUTTICK, Health Correspondent, April 28 2007   anachronism [ uh'-NAK-ruh'-niz-uh' m ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. an error in chronology when a person or event in history is placed at a wrong period of time 2. something that is incorrect in a historical or chronological order   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The committee set out to find the reason behind the anachronism.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has dismissed the old policy as an "anachronism" based on an "outdated concept". The Times of India, India & the Tibet card, Shobhana Saxena, 23 November, 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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