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	14-Mar-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists trough [ trawf ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. an open boxlike receptacle used chiefly to hold water or food for animals 2. the lowest point in an economic cycle 3. a conduit or channel for conveying water 4. a long depression between two consecutive ridges or waves   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The horses trotted up to the trough to have a drink of water.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   ""The brewery produces about four-and-a-half gallons of waste beer and I simply pour it in the trough and the cattle drink it,"" said Mr Humphreys, who farms 200 acres at Upper Bryntalch. BBC, Beer and massage for Powys farmer's rare Wagyu cattle, 1 February 2010.   bric-a-brac [ BRIK-uh'-brak ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   an assortment of small articles collected chiefly for decoration or sentimental value   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The host's sitting room was full of expensive bric-a-brac that he had assiduously collected over the years.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Need to dust that collection of glass animals or other delicate items? Put on some fabric gloves -- the softer the better -- to clean your bric-a-brac thoroughly. Reader's Digest, Dusting , From Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things   soporific [ sop-uh'-RIF-ik, soh-puh'- ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) causing or tending to cause sleep 2. (adj.) of or pertaining to sleep or drowsiness 3. (n.) something that causes sleep   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   For a generation brought up on a diet of T20 cricket, a test match could prove to be positively soporific.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   His lecture is titled "Meaning in American Politics," but it might have been better titled "Dreaming in American Politics," for it proves a powerful soporific. ABC News, Book Excerpt: 'Smashmouth' by Dana Milbank (Pt. 2), Dana Milbank, September 30, 2004   dissimulate [ di-SIM-yuh'-leyt ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to conceal, disguise or hide one's true motives or feelings by using a false appearance 2. (intr.v.) to dissemble or conceal one's true motives by means of a pretence or disguise   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He dissimulated information because he was working undercover.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Those who know not how to dissimulate, know not how to rule. Telegraph, We are all liars and behave worse in private than we pretend in public, By Adam Nicolson, 28 Feb 2004   scarify [ SKAR-uh'-fahy ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to make superficial or shallow incisions or cuts 2. to lacerate or criticise severely   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   While getting a tattoo, the skin has to be scarified making it a painful process.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In the Gulf of Mexico, trawlers ply back and forth year in year out, hauling vast nets that scarify the seabed and allow no time for plant and animal life to recover. Economist, Troubled waters, Dec 30th 2008   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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