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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 01-May-12

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         01-May-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists sequester  [  si-KWES-ter  ]   [  transitive verb  ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to separate or segregate 2. (tr.v.) to withdraw or remove 3. (law) to confiscate or take possession of temporarily 4. (intr.v.) to undergo separation or sequestration   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She was sequestered from her friends as a part of her punishment.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The country is not awash with petrodollars because the state taxes its energy earnings heavily, and sequesters its dollar takings in its central-bank reserves and its Stabilisation Fund. The Economist, A taxonomy of trouble, Oct 23rd 2008   ichthyology  [  ik-thee-OL-uh'-jee  ]   [  noun  ]   MEANING :   a branch of zoology that is conc

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 01-May-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-May-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day An intelligence agency wants to develop a new code containing 1050 distinct critical words for its sleuths. It intends to use just three symbols - α , β and γ – for each letter in the code. If all the words are designed to have exactly p number of characters, what is the minimum required value of p ? OPTIONS     1) 6   2) 7   3) 8   4) This code is not possible discuss | yesterday's solution | more questions Tip of the Day While practicing sums, learn to derive the formulae that are going to be used rather than memorizing them. Deriving formulae helps one to be prepared for logic-based sums that cannot be solved by standard formulae. more tips Last year's Question of the day (30-Apr-11) A class of 40 students h