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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 10-Apr-12

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         10-Apr-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists retrieve  [  ri-TREEV  ]   [  noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb  ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to recover or restore 2. (tr.v.)to repair or make amends 3. (tr.v.) to rescue or free 4. (tr.v.) to access and read 5. (tr. v.) to fetch game (in hunting) 6. (tr. v.) to return the ball (as in tennis) 7. (intr. v.) to fetch game (hunting) 8. (intr. v.) to return the ball (as in tennis) 9. (n.) an instance of retrieval 10. (n.) return of the ball (as in tennis)   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The policeman retrieved the purse that had been stolen.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It and the Dutch government have ended up lending money to Iceland so that their citizens can retrieve money from Landsbanki, one of the country's nationalised banks. The Economist, Divided we

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 10-Apr-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.         10-Apr-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day From among the options, choose the summary of the passage that is written in the same style as that of the passage. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a testament to the ability of US industrial lobbies, Congress, and presidents to obfuscate public policy. It is widely understood today that free-trade agreements (FTAs), whether bilateral or plurilateral are built on discrimination. That is why economists typically call them preferential-trade agreements (PTAs). And that is why the US government's public-relations machine calls what is in fact a discriminatory plurilateral FTA, a "partnership" invoking a false aura of cooperation and cosmopolitanism. OPTIONS     1) The Trans-Pacific Partnership is an example of free-trade agreements being partisan influenced by t