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	02-May-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists irresolute [ i-REZ-uh'-loot ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   doubtful, vacillating, indecisive, unstable or inconstant   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His irresolute attitude causes a lot of confusion as deadlines are not met.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   This approach yields some alarming and even beautiful effects; but such stage magic requires a fully abstracted set rather than the irresolute compromise of Tom Piper's design. Telegraph, Royal, gaudy fate, By Irving Wardle, 20 Feb 2009   lucubrate [  LOO-kyoo'-breyt  ]   [ intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to write in a learned manner 2. to work or study hard especially late into the night   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The critic lucubrated on all the ideas expressed in the author's book.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Under the Eisenhower program, one could lucubrate over constitutional rights and freedoms and forever abandon captured American soldiers. Editorial Reviews, Amazon.com Review   nondescript [ non-di-SKRIPT ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) having no distinctive qualities or describable features 2. (adj.) lacking individual character 3. (n.) a person or thing that is not of any particular type   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The pick-pocket wore nondescript clothes so that he could blend in with the crowd.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In the original Swedish television series of Wallander, the police car was a nondescript Hyundai, doubtless indicative of the parlous state of the Swedish car industry. The Telegraph, Comparing the effects of the snow on attempts to travel to work, 7 January 2010.   draconian [ drey-KOH-nee-uh'n, druh ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. harsh, rigorous or unusually severe 2. characteristic of or pertaining to Draco or his code of laws   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The elders say that society has become too easy going and permissive now that the draconian laws have been repealed.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   As one who helped to make racial profiling a national issue and who has in the last year visited Arizona several times to rally against these draconian immigration policies, I am calling for a coalition of civil rights organizations to work with those in Arizona to resist and overturn this state law. CNN, Hundreds protest immigration law in Arizona, 26 April 2010.   stymie [ STAHY-mee ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to hinder, thwart or stand in one's way as an obstacle 2. (n.) an obstacle, impediment or obstruction 3. (n.) (golf) a condition when the ball (tee) of the opponent serves as an obstacle between the current player's ball (tee) and the hole   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Her efforts were stymied by her opponents.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The questioning conducted on Aug. 26 and Aug. 28 comes amid a move by the governor's attorney to stymie a legislative investigation of Palin. abcNEWS, Palin's Lawyer Has Already Questioned 2 Witnesses, By STEVE QUINN, ANCHORAGE, Alaska September 4, 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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