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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 01-Feb-12

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         01-Feb-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists mores  [  MAWR-eyz, -eez, MOHR-  ]   [  noun  ]   MEANING :   1. socially accepted customs and traditions 2. attitudes, ways or manners   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The social mores prevalent in the villages still forbid inter-caste marriages.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   With the print run nearing half a million, it is time for Chronicles to refocus on "American culture" in the proper sense of die Kultur, the sum of the life of a community and its mores. Chronicles magzine, It's 2028, and All Is Well: The Diary of an Aging Counterrevolutionary, by Srdja Trifkovic   appellation  [  ap-uh'-LEY-shuh' n  ]   [  noun  ]   MEANING :   1. title, name, designat

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 01-Feb-12

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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.         01-Feb-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day A ladder has rungs 25 cm apart. The rungs decrease uniformly in length from 45 cm at the bottom to 25 cm at the top. If the top and the bottom rungs are 2.5 m apart, what is the length of wood required only for the rungs ? OPTIONS     1) 350 cm   2) 300 cm   3) 50 cm   4) None of these discuss | yesterday's solution | more questions Tip of the Day As a part of your personal interview preparation, spend time articulating your strengths and weaknesses- at least three each. Then think about 2 instances or events where you displayed each of these. more tips Last year's Question of the day (31-Jan-11) The question below contains a number of sentences. Select the most appropriate word in each to form a correct sente

TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 31-Jan-12

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         31-Jan-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists overweening  [  OH-ver-WEE-ning  ]   [  adjective  ]   MEANING :   1. brash, arrogant or conceited excessive or overbearing   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His brash, overweening manner was repugnant to all.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Despite its overweening ambition to re-write the rule book governing how multi-part TV crime yarns unfold, Mobile's first episode succeeded in being as attention-grabbing as it was implausible; as entertainingly complex as it was, from time to time, annoyingly daft. The Herald, Mixed-up messages on the mobey, DAVID BELCHER, March 26 2007   apparition  [  ap-uh'-RISH-uh' n  ]   [  noun  ]   MEANING :   1. a spectre, wraith, phantom or