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	18-Feb-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists decollete [ dey-kol-TEY ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. a low neckline (of a dress) 2. wearing a strapless dress or one with a low neckline   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The decollete dress that she wore for the parade must have cost the sponsors a tidy sum.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The cowl neck that is the designer's trademark tantalizingly exposed the actress's decollete. BBC, Sex and the City: Fashion focus, Penny Martin, 12 May 2008.   dolorous [ DOL-er-uh's  ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. mournful or full of sorrow 2. characterized by or showing grief or sorrow 3. causing pain or sorrow   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She suffered a nervous breakdown when she heard the dolorous news of her husband's death.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   She receives strong support from a remarkable score by Alexandre Desplat, sweeping, romantic and dolorous, but built on a tinkling eight-note refrain that sounds like a child's nursery rhyme. The Telegraph, Kidman at her mesmerising best, David Gritten, 5 November 2004.   officious [ uh'-FISH-uh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   characterized by excessive intrusiveness, offering unwanted services or advice to others; meddlesome   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Officious interference in almost all matters by the bureaucracy has been the bane of our country.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   My friend Reilly has the perfect put-down for that officious secretary with the superior, mock-British accent who fends off all phone calls to her boss with some icy variation of, "Can I tell him the subject of your call?" CNN, Nobody asked me, but....,Mark Shields, August 15, 2005   adventitious [ ad-vuh' n-TISH-uh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. accidental, extrinsic or not inherent 2. appearing or developing in unusual places   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Her adventitious inclusion into the group turned to be blessing in disguise.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   These varieties prefer limey soil, and they have tiny, clinging (or adventitious) roots. Telegraph, Ivy league, Val Bourne, 03 Dec 2004   divulge [ di-VUHLJ, dahy- ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to reveal or make known 2. (archaic) to proclaim   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Information divulged without the presence of a defence lawyer cannot be used as evidence.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Two U.S. defense officials with direct knowledge of the highly classified message confirmed the details to CNN but said the issue is so sensitive that they could not divulge whose signature was on the message. CNN, U.S. Persian Gulf forces cautioned on Iran, By Barbara Starr CNN Pentagon Correspondent, June 14, 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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