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	30-Mar-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists tamper [ TAM-per ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr. v.) to interfere with 2. (intr. v.) to falsify by making changes 3. (intr. v.) to influence by illegal dealings 4. (tr. v.) to change improperly   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The accused had tampered with the evidence.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Before we visited, someone tampered with a key circuit board and that's preventing the clinic from using electricity still being stored in the batteries. CNN, Light in the darkness: Iraq's solar powered clinic, Mohammed Jamjoom, 28 September 2009,   brunt [ bruhnt ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the main force of a blow 2. most of the impact of 3. the burden of   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The back section of the fort bore the brunt of the attack indicating that the invaders had used divertive tactics.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   British households should brace themselves for greater pain in 2011 than 2010, as the brunt of the Government's tax rises and spending cuts come into force. The Telegraph, Brunt of Britain's pain to be felt in 2011, economists say, Angela Monaghan, 3 December 2009.   loquacious [ loh-KWEY-shuh' s ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   extremely talkative   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The loquacious guest at the dinner table enlivened the proceedings.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Among us were Shidlovskiy's good friend, the Reverend John Wood, a loquacious, big-game-hunting Baptist preacher from Waco, Texas, and Wood's prominent physician neighbor, "Doctor Joe" Cunningham. National Geographic , Fossil Wars , Lewis M. Simons, May 2005   unassailable [ uhn-uh'-SEY-luh'-buh'l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. not open to attack 2. undeniable or not subject to dispute   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The emperor was confident that his unassailable bastions would hold the invaders at bay.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Her stage sets are as lavish as any Hollywood musical and as her talent shines through the screen Madonna's position as the ultimate pop star seems unassailable. BBC, IN BED WITH MADONNA, Alek Keshishian, 3 March 2010.   portmanteau word [ pawrt-MAN-toh wurd, pohrt-; pawrt-man-TOH, pohrt- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a word formed by combining the meanings and sounds of two different words   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Brangelina is a portmanteau word formed by combining the name Angelina Jolie with that of her husband, Brad Pitt.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Smirting is a portmanteau word, formed by packing parts of two words together to create another, combining the sense of each. Times Online, Ben Macintyre celebrates the portmanteau, From The Times, May 2, 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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