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	23-Nov-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists shunt [ shuhnt ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to push aside 2. (tr. v.) to move around or divert 3. (n.) the act of pushing aside 4. (n.) a railroad switch from one track to another   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He edged up to the overturned car with his truck and shunted it off the road.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   And the PAN has been overseeing a government that has shunted from one crisis to another, Pastor said. CNN, Sunday's Mexican elections are referendum on Calderon, Arthur Brice, 3 July 2009   murky [ MUR-kee ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. gloomy or dark 2. hazy or thick with mist, smoke or fog 3. muddy or darkened or clouded with sediment   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Visibility was poor due to the murky smog which had settled over the city.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Worcester Arts Workshop is looking for young people to take part in a special project that will dig deep into the city's murky past. BBC, Young actors wanted for history play, 3 March 2010.   deign [ deyn ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr. v.) to condescend; to think it fitting or appropriate to one's dignity 2. (tr. v.) to condescend to grant or offer   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He did not deign to reply to his colleague's snide remarks.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A Gillespie no-ball brings up England's 50 and a couple of people deign to clap in the stands. BBC, England v New Zealand as it happened, 16 January 2007   subliminal [ suhb-LIM-uh'-nl ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. functioning or operating well below the threshold of consciousness 2. inadequate or insufficient to produce sensation or cause stimulus   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   There were accused of using subliminal messages on television to sell their products.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Two of the four private television stations have been put under investigation for misinformation, political propaganda, insertion of subliminal messages into children's movies and a host of other infractions. National Geographic, The Destruction of a Country, by Cathy Jensen de Sánchez, 02/04/2003   severance [ SEV-er-uh'ns, SEV-ruh'ns ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the act of cutting off or chopping off 2. separation   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The king decreed that the severance of the traitor's head from his body be done by a guillotine.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Patch had died, just a few days after Henry Allingham, I felt an almost physical sensation of severance. The telegraph, We are still lost in the mystery of that war, Simon Heffer, 1 August 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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