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How to pronounce “wolf”

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Pronunciation guide for wolf

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of wolf with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Beyond Words: What Animals Think and FeelA researcher told me about a female wolf
Definition summary: (countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.

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Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

A researcher told me about a female wolf

[Noun]
(countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
(music) A wolf tone or wolf note.
(figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
A wolf spider.
(obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.
[Verb]
(transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
(intransitive, slang) To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.
(intransitive) To hunt for wolves.

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