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	17-Feb-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists purveyor [ per-VEY-er ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a person who provides or supplies 2. (n.) a person who supplies provisions   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was the purveyor of rations to the poor villages.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He had delivered countless grams in the last few weeks; he hated being the purveyor of the bad news they contained. The dreaded telegram, William, 03 2009   numismatist [ noo-MIZ-muh'-tist  ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a person who specialized in coins 2. the study and collection of coins 3. a coin collector   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He told his parents that he wanted to become a numismatist and work in the Department of Coins and Medals at a museum.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   No value has yet been put on the discovery, which has been deemed "of international importance", but numismatists said just one silver coin from the same period can fetch up to £50. BBC, Coin hoard declared treasure, 8 April 2003.   odyssey [ OD-uh'-see ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a long adventurous trip 2. an intellectual or spiritual quest   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   David Livingstone's odyssey into the heart of Africa is a story that every school boy knows.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   This is where I've landed, three weeks into a five-week odyssey into Australia's adventurous heart. National Geographic, The Four Corners of Oz: Fun Down Under Australia, Tom Clynes   caprice [ kuh'-PREES ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. an impulsive change of mind 2. an inclination to change one's mind impulsively 3. a sudden, unpredictable action, change or series of actions or changes   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His sudden caprice caused his team to lose the match.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It is quite a selfish thing to do really, I suppose, to engage in this sort of activity out of caprice abcNews, British Matador Coming out of Retirement in Spain, By DANIEL WOOLLS Associated Press Writer, August 15, 2008   drawl [ drawl ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr.v.) to speak slowly by prolonging vowels 2. (tr.v.) to utter slowly with drawn-out vowels 3. (n.) a way of speaking slowly by prolonging vowels   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The actors who were in a Western play drawled their vowels to increase of the play.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A southern-American-style drawl still marks out Liberians from other English-speaking Africans. BBC, Liberia: About to bounce back?, By Joseph Winter, BBC News website, 7 November 2005   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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