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Affricate |ˈafrikit| -

Noun

• a phoneme that combines a plosive with an immediately following fricative or spirant sharing thesame place of articulation, e.g., ch as in chair and j as in jar

Plosive |ˈplōsiv| -

Adjective

• denoting a consonant that is produced by stopping the airflow using the lips, teeth, or palate, followed by a sudden release of air.

Fricative |ˈfrikətiv| -

Adjective

• denoting a type of consonant made by the friction of breath in a narrow opening, producing aturbulent air flow.

Estival (aestival) |ˈestəvəl; eˈstī-| -

Adjective

• belonging to or appearing in summer.

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Paradigm |ˈparəˌdīm| -

Noun

• a typical example or pattern of something; a model
• a worldview underlying the theories and methodology of a particular scientific subject
• a set of linguistic items that form mutually exclusive choices in particular syntactic roles
• a table of all theinflected forms of a particular verb, noun, or adjective, serving as a model for other words of thesame conjugation or declension.

Hirundine |hiˈrəndin; -ˌdīn| -

Noun

• a songbird of the swallow family

Aardwolf |ˈärdˌwoŏlf| -

Noun

• a nocturnal black-striped African mammal of the hyena family, feeding mainly on termites.

Younker |ˈyə ng kər| -

Noun

• a youngster

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Foehn |fān; fœn| -

Noun

• a hot southerly wind on the northern slopes of the Alps.
• (Meteorology) a warm dry wind of this type developing in the lee of any mountain range.

Kachina |kəˈ ch ēnə| -

Noun

• a deified ancestral spirit in the mythology of Pueblo Indians.
• a person who represents such a spirit in ceremonial dances.
• a small carved figure representing such a spirit.

Yenta |ˈyentə| -

Noun

• a woman who is a gossip or busybody.

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These are the words for today, Friday, April 22, 2011.

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