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	30-Oct-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists somatic [ soh-MAT-ik, suh'- ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. bodily or physical 2. parietal or pertaining to the wall of the body   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His condition was not somatic in nature rather it was psychological.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Scientists remove the nucleus from an egg cell, which contains the cell's genetic material, and replace it with genetic material from another somatic, or body tissue, cell. National Geographic, U.S. Team Produces First Mule Clone, Stefan Lovgren, May 29, 2003   wane [ weyn ]   [ noun, intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr.v.) to gradually diminish or reduce in size, intensity or strength 2. (int.v.) to draw closer to an end 3. (intr.v.) to gradually reduce the moon's illuminated portion in intensity and size 4. (n.) an instance of gruel diminishing or dwindling 5. (n.) a period or phase of gradual decline   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The moon waned as the days flew by but there was no message from him.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The sun's energy output varies slightly as sunspots wax and wane on the star's surface. National Geographic, Don't Blame Sun for Global Warming, Study Says, by Brian Handwerk, September 13, 2006   abominate [ uh'-BOM-uh'-neyt ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   to abhor, detest, hate or loathe   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Her irrational behaviour showed that she abominated people of a different race.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Jeremy Paxman on the extraordinary achievement of Wilfred Owen, who abominated war yet died a great warrior. Telegraph, Wilfred Owen: The soldiers' poet, by Jeremy Paxman, 03 Nov 2007   retrospective [ re-truh'-SPEK-tiv ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) thinking of past events 2. (n.) an exhibition of an artists achievements   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His retrospective thoughts brought to light a number of tiny details that he hadn't considered as important.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Having moved from penury to tax exile in a villa on Ibiza, he celebrated a grand retrospective show at the Centre Pompidou in 1983 by treating everyone in his foundry – and his local publican – to an all-expenses-paid weekend in Paris. The Telegraph, Barry Flanagan, 14 September 2009   mollycoddle [ MOL-ee-kod-l ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a man or boy who is pampered and overprotected 2. (tr. v.) to pamper or be overprotective and indulgent toward   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The mollycoddled lad found it difficult to adjust to life at the boarding school.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   "They're big boys now," said Terfel. "But they're getting older, so they don't need to be mollycoddled as much, and lifted up and down so." CNN, Off his back, back on stage, 3 October 2000.   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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