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	17-Mar-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists discombobulated [ dis-kuh'm-BOB-yuh'-ley-tid ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to discompose 2. (tr. v.) to confuse or frustrate 3. (tr. v.) to disconcert   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Some rowdy students at the back of the hall discombobulated the speaker by hooting during his speech.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It's enough to make even the most conscientious climate change student issue a weary discombobulated sigh. CNN, Keeping track of climate change, Matthew Knight, 5 January 2009.   braggadocio [ brag-uh'-DOH-shee-oh ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. empty boasting; bragging 2. a person who boasts; braggart   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His braggadocio about his wealth and status irked his guests.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It's the hottest thing on television, Trump proclaimed to reporters Thursday, a bit of vintage braggadocio dating back to his meteoric rise in the '80s. CNN, Donald Trump is back and riding high   declivity [ di-KLIV-i-tee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a slope or inclination showing a downward trend   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The car sped up on the declivity causing her to brake often.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Her keen eyes discern a slight darkening of the colour of the green crop in a declivity either side of it, a sign of where it would have run. Telegraph, Clues for landscape detectives, Jack Watkins, 03 Mar 2003   vouchsafe [ vouch-SEYF ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to deign or condescend to bestow favour 2. (tr.v.) to permit or allow 3. (intr.v.) to deign or condescend   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was out of trouble because the General vouchsafed for him.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A right that has only recently been vouchsafed, although the appeal must also be heard by a military court. Economist, Egypt's government battles with the Muslim Brotherhood, Apr 17th 2008   trifling [ TRAHY-fling ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) having only a very little importance 2. (adj.) of small value or quantity 3. (n.) conduct which is frivolous   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She started her acting career with a trifling role in a b-grade movie.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Judge Anthony Morris said: "The loss of his life over such a trifling dispute must be incomprehensible to his family." BBC, Drugs row killer jailed for life, 18 September 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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