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Daily Wordlist

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                                                    Daily Wordlist aspersion  [  uh'-SPUR-zhuh' n, -shuh' n  ]   [  noun  ]   MEANING :   1. spraying of holy water during religious practices 2. a potentially harmful remark made with the intention to defame 3. an act of defamation or derogation   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   US Olympic gold medallist Marion Jones' admission that she had taken steroids prior to the Sydney Olympics cast an aspersion on the sport of athletics.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It is not casting an aspersion on the sport, it just shows they are living in the real world. Telegraph, Samples to be frozen next year, Marcus Armytage, 26 Nov 2004   demesne  [  di-MEYN, -MEEN  ]   [  noun  ]   MEANING :   1. legal possession and use of land as one's own 2. land adjoining a mansion or country house 3. land, occupied and controlled by, and worked for the exclusive use of, the owner 4. a district, territory, state or domain   USAGE EXAMPLE 1

CAT Question of the Day

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                                                       CAT Question of the Day The first of the great Georgian clubs to popularize the glee was the Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club of London,  founded in 1762. Glee singing societies became popular in the 18th century and remained so, well into the 19th  century. Glee clubs were at their most active during the second half of the 18th C., encouraging the production of  new glees by awarding prizes to their composers. For example, in 1763 the Catch Club was offering four prizes  annually - two for glees (one serious, one cheerful), one for a catch and one for a canon. From around 1850, as  larger choral societies supplanted the earlier clubs, the term glee club was increasingly used in the U.S.A. to  describe collegiate ensembles performing 'glees' and other light music in informal circumstances. As these glee  clubs began more to resemble standard choirs during the 20th century, the tradition of singing glees

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CAT Question of the Day

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      CAT Question of the Day A clock is such that it loses 4 minutes each day. The clock is set right on February 25, 2008 at 2 p.m. How many minutes should be added to get the right time when the clock shows 9 a.m. on 3 rd  March, 2008? OPTIONS     1) 9780/359   2) 9340/357   3) 9120/329   4) 8760/269 discuss  |  yesterday's solution  |  more questions Tip of the Day Diverse reading during the preparation time will help develop a comfort level with the Reading Comprehension passages. Get acquainted with passages based on philosophy, political theory and sociology. more tips Last year's Question of the day (17-Oct-10) Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate pair of words from the given options. Despite the fanatical ________ of a few admirers, it is a virtual _________ that Bacon did not write the works traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare. OPTIONS     1) assertions, reality   2) claims, possibility   3) claims, certainty   4) den