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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 23-Oct-11

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         23-Oct-11 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists fealty  [  FEE-uh' l-tee  ]   [  noun  ]   MEANING :   1. faithfulness, loyalty or fidelity 2. an oath to remain faithful or loyal   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His long term fealty to the Prime minister secured for him a cabinet berth in the new government.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   As he lounges behind an antique desk in the old-world, 18th-century architectural gem of a central London house that he uses as a private office, Noon, 71, insists his apparently newfound fealty to Brown is neither new nor opportunistic. THE TIMES OF INDIA, 'Curry King' to spice up Brown's Britain, 28 Sep 2007   condescend  [  KON-duh'-send  ]   [  intransitive verb  ]   MEANING :   1. to descend, deig

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 23-Oct-11

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see the Question of the Day and Tip of the Day on the Web.         23-Oct-11 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day Magic was a controversial subject in Shakespeare's day. In Italy in 1600, Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake for his occult studies. Outside the Catholic world, in Protestant England where Shakespeare wrote The Tempest , magic was also taboo; not all "magic", however, was considered evil. Several thinkers took a more rational approach to the study of the supernatural, with the determination to discover the workings of unusual phenomena. The German Henricus Cornelius Agrippa was one such thinker, who published in De Occulta Philosophia (1531, 1533) his observations of "divine" magic. Agrippa's work influenced Dr. John Dee, an Englishman and student of supernatural phenomena. Both Agrippa a