TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 26-Feb-14

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	26-Feb-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists concoct [ kon-KOKT ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to prepare by mixing ingredients 2. devise or make up using skill and intelligence 3. contrive or fabricate   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He concocted a sumptuous meal from all the leftovers in the refrigerator.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The make-up used by the ancient Egyptians to darken and enhance the eyes sometimes took up to a month to concoct. BBC, Cleopatra's eye make-up 'had health benefits', 9 January 2010.   harlequin [ HAHR-luh'-kwin, -kin ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a comic character usu. wearing a mask, tights and holding a wooden sword or magic wand 2. (n.) a buffoon; clown 3. (adj.) variegated with marks; varied in colour or decoration   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Most children love going to the circus in order to be able to enjoy the antics of harlequins.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Harlequin is the most popular of the zanni or comic servant characters from the Italian Commedia dell'Arte. Wikipedia, Harlequin   ravenous [ RAV-uh'-nuh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. voracious, hungry, greedy or famished 2. predatory, avaricious or rapacious 3. eager or greedy for food, gratification or satisfaction   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His ravenous need to be wealthy destroyed him.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Nigella Lawson could go straight to the kitchen from scrubbing the toilet with her bare hands and I'd still fall on her food like a ravenous dog. BBC, India v England: 2nd Test day two as it happened, 20 December 2008   discern [ di-SURN, -ZURN ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to mentally detect, apprehend or discriminate 2. (tr.v.) to perceive, recognize or distinguish 3. (intr.v.) to distinguish   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was incapable of discerning between the causes of poverty from a sociological and an economic point of view.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The search engine will be hard to fool and should be able to discern, much more readily, the intent behind search terms. BBC, Helping the web to understand, By Mark Ward Technology correspondent, BBC News, 16 December 2008   slacken [ SLAK-uh'n ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to make or become looser or less taut 2. (tr. v.) to make or become less active   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   During the recession demand for items like cement and steel slackened.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Mr Rogge emphasised that the Greeks must not slacken their pace. BBC, Greeks told to keep on running, 2 May 2001.   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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