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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 16-Apr-12

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         16-Apr-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists pugnacious  [  puhg-NEY-shuh' s  ]   [  adjective  ]   MEANING :   antagonistic or quarrelsome in nature   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The pugnacious little boy got into a lot of fights   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Vettori the batsman then held fort for the visitors as he went unbeaten on a pugnacious 48 with number ten Jeetan Patel falling in the last over of the day for nought, leaving the tourists 90 runs behind. Telegraph, Bangladesh remain on top as Daniel Vettori attempts fightback, By Telegraph staff and agencies, 18 Oct 2008   foray  [  FAWR-ey, FOR-ey  ]   [  noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb  ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a raid, plunder or pillage 2. (intr.v.) to pillage or plunder for sp

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 16-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.         16-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 Imagine that you are French. You are walking along a busy pavement in Paris and another pedestrian is approaching from the opposite direction. A collision will occur unless you each move out of the other's way. Which way do you step? The answer is almost certainly to the right. Replay the same scene in many parts of Asia, however, and you would probably move to the left. It is not obvious why. There is no instruction to head in a specific direction. There is no simple correlation with the side of the road on which people drive: Londoners funnel to the right on pavements, for example. Instead, this is a