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	01-Mar-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists vex [ veks ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to annoy, provoke or bother 2. to confuse or perplex 3. to plague, afflict or cause distress 4. to toss about or shake 5. to discuss in detail   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She was vexed by the situation.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   This conflict, which continues to vex the cleverest philosophers, is old and deep. Economist, Science and the history of colour, Nov 29th 2001   vehement [ VEE-uh'-muh'nt ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. intense, powerful, deeply passionate or emotional or fervid 2. strong, strenuous or full of vigour 3. violent or marked by anger   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His vehement protests fell on deaf ears.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Dima Pikunov is a burly, impetuous man of vehement moods and quiet charms. National Geographic, Excerpts, October 2003   stygian [ STIJ-ee-uh'n ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. dull and ominous 2. pertaining to Hades or the river Styx   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The teenager was afraid to fall asleep because she was having recurring stygian nightmares.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   That mental lassitude means that when Henman steps onto the bigger stages in the game, his story is invariably shrouded in Stygian gloom. BBC, Henman's changing challenge, 6 January 2002   imply [ im-PLAHY ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to suggest without being directly expressed or explicitly stated 2. to signify or entail 3. to involve as a necessary circumstance 4. to hint at or express indirectly   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The company could not sue him for defamation of character because he did not slander them by calling them crooks though he did imply that their honesty left much to be desired.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The judiciary will imply more strict policies, and those who were arrested on Ashura Day will be confronted heavily by the judiciary CNN, Report: Iran releases four journalists, professor, 1 March 2010.   solecism [ SOL-uh'-siz-uh' m, SOH-luh'- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. something inconsistent with the normal, or accepted order 2. a nonstandard or ungrammatical usage of language 3. a breach of decorum or good manners   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Committing a solecism during a job interview could prove costly.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A solecism of initial blunder may generate legal heat and forensic spiral from court to court. The Hindu, Industrial jurisprudence, V. R. KRISHNA IYER   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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