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	30-Dec-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists turgid [ TUR-jid ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. swollen, bloated or tumid 2. pompous, grandiloquent or extremely ornate   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The turgid boil on his foot required medical attention.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   With the police, courts and prosecution being openly biased, criminal cases against the accused are sinking like stones in a turgid pool. The Times of India, Unfinished justice, 22 Mar 2007   reek [ reek ]   [ noun, intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) an unpleasant or foul odour 2. (n.) fog, smoke or steam 3. (intr.v.) to emanate, give off or exude strong, unpleasant odours 4. (intr.v.) to give off steam, fumes or smoke 5. (tr.v.) to give off or exude   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The reek caused by the leak in the drainage pipes was unbearable.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   From Turin in the north to Rome in the south, there is a heavy reek of corruption about the game they call calcio. BBC News, Italians losing faith in football, by Mark Duff, 27 May 2006   recompense [ REK-uh'm-pens ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.)to award compensation to 2. (tr. v.)to award compensation for 3. (n.) payment for work done 4. (n.) compensation paid for damage or loss   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The company recompensed the accountant with a huge amount for manipulating the accounts of the company.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   You do realise, don't you, that there are still people who do things with no thought of reward or recompense? The telegraph, Property in France: c'est la folie, Michael Wright, 6 August 2009   brindled [ BRIN-dld ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. greyish with darker streaks or spots 2. tawny with streaks of a darker colour   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The little boy chose a boxer dog with a brindled coat from the pet shop.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Brindled mongrels ran in circles, yelping, and there was a whinnying of horses. CNN, 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet', Salman Rushdie, 15 April 1999.   gainsay [ GEYN-sey, geyn-SEY ]   [ verb ]   MEANING :   to deny or contradict   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   It would be difficult to gainsay the economic policies enunciated by such stalwarts as Dr. Manmohan Singh and P. Chidambaram.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   They included mandatory jail terms for persistent burglars and drug dealers, something the judiciary opposed but which Labour, recognising the popularity of a tough stand on crime, could not gainsay. Telegraph, Labour happy to follow Howard's way, 10 August 2004   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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