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	13-Apr-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists finicky [ FIN-i-kee ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. fussy, meticulous, particular or fastidious 2. requiring precision   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was a finicky eater.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Farmer was occasionally finicky. Economist, Pluck a flamingo, Dec 18th 2008   ambush [ AM-boo'sh  ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) the act of waiting in hiding to attack by surprise 2.(n.) an unexpected attack made from a concealed place 3. (n.) a concealed trap 4. (tr. v.) to attack from a concealed place   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Insurgents laid an ambush at the canyon to intercept the armoured vehicles carrying munitions for the government forces.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He had agreed to a fight one boy at his school after lessons, but was ambushed by the gang as they met on the school's tennis courts. The Telegraph, School where pupil brain damaged suffered race riots, Caroline Gammell, 20 October 2009.   slag [ slag ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) cinder or the fused and vitrified matter separated during the process of smelting or obtaining metal from its ore 2. (n.) leftover waste after the re-sorting of coal 3. (tr. v.) to convert into dross or cinder 4. (tr. v.) to remove the dross or cinder formed during the metal making process 5. (intr. v.) to form dross or cinder   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Slag from the smelter was sent to the cement factory to be used as raw material in the making of cement.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A 50-foot high pile of slag was left over from 74 years of making nails, wire and fencing from scrap metal. The Telegraph, Abandoned US steel mill is sign of the times, Mira Oberman, 15 December 2009.   florid [ FLAWR-id, FLOR- ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. ornate; flowery 2. ruddy; having a rosy blush 3. (archaic) healthy 3. (obsolete) covered with or abounding in flowers   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His stout physique, florid complexion and benign disposition bespoke of an inner contentment rarely seen these days.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The knob is a dome of bald rock and florid rhododendrons crowning Roan Mountain that thrusts into the blue Tennessee sky like a giant granite egg. National Geographic, One Day at a Time on the Five-Million-Step Program , June/July 2004   contumacious [ kon-too'-MEY-shuh' s, -tyoo'- ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   rebellious, obstinate, insubordinate or disobedient   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The contumacious student was punished.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Without the disciplining presence of the two heavyweights, contumacious councillors busied themselves with procedural obstruction and shouting "corruption" at each other Economist, Tehran's dirty municipal politics, Jan 23rd 2003   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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