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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 05-Mar-12

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         05-Mar-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists polemic  [  puh'-LEM-ik, poh-  ]   [  noun, adjective  ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a debate, controversy or argument 2. (n.) one who is controversial or polemic 3. (adj.) controversial, debatable or argumentative 4. (adj.) pertaining to or of a dispute or controversy   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The polemic was noisy, involving a lot of jargon.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions. BBC, WHY WE FIGHT, Eugene Jarecki, 8 June 2007   enamoured  [  i-NAM-erd  ]   [  adjective  ]   MEANING :   charmed, captivated or marked or characterized by unreasoning, silly or foolish fondness   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :  

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 05-Mar-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.         05-Mar-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day In many organisms, the haploid stage has been reduced to just gametes specialized to recombine and form a new diploid organism; in others, the gametes are capable of undergoing cell division to produce multicellular haploid organisms. In either case, gametes may be externally similar, particularly in size (isogamy), or may have evolved an asymmetry such that the gametes are different in size and other aspects (anisogamy). By convention, the larger gamete (called an ovum, or egg cell) is considered female, while the smaller gamete (called a spermatozoon, or sperm cell) is considered male. An individual that produces exclusively large gametes is female, and one that produces exclusively small gametes is male. An individual th