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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 14-Feb-12

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         14-Feb-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists infallible  [  in-FAL-uh'-buh' l  ]   [  adjective  ]   MEANING :   perfect, unerring or reliable   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The pedant's observations were infallible just as his pedagogic skills were impeccable.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   There's a need to get their stall in order before demanding payments in this way, as it would appear the system is not infallible. BBC, Call for direct debit safeguards, 31 March 2007   cruet  [  KROO-it  ]   [  noun  ]   MEANING :   1. a glass bottle that is usually used to hold vinegar or oil 2. a small vessel that is used to hold holy water or wine for the eucharist   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The cruet was placed precariously on the table.   USAGE EXAMPL

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 14-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.         14-Feb-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day Socrates generally applied his method of examination, called Socratic Irony, to concepts that seem to lack any concrete definition; e.g., the key moral concepts at the time, the virtues of piety, wisdom, temperance, courage, and justice. Such an examination challenged the implicit moral beliefs of the interlocutors, bringing out inadequacies and inconsistencies in their beliefs, and usually resulting in puzzlement known as aporia. In view of such inadequacies, Socrates himself professed his ignorance, but others still claimed to have knowledge. Socrates believed that his awareness of his ignorance made him wiser than those who, though ignorant, still claimed knowledge. Although this belief seems paradoxical at first gla