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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 24-May-12

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         24-May-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists ruminate  [  ROO-muh'-neyt  ]   [  transitive verb  ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to chew up repetitively like a cow does 2. (tr. v.) to ponder over a thought repetitively 3. (intr.v.) to chew cud repetitively like a cow 4. (intr.v.) to think over a matter repetitively   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She often ruminated about her daily workload over a cup of tea.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He never wrote another novel (one attempt, "Answered Prayers," was left unfinished) or enjoyed the same level of success -- and perhaps ruminated over all that until he died in 1984 from alcoholism and drug addiction. CNN, 'It wasn't easy being him', By Paul Clinton, October 12, 2005   knead  [  need  ]   [  transitive verb  ]   MEANING :   1. to mix thoro

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 24-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.         24-May-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day In the following question a sentence is fragmented into four parts and labelled 1,2,3 and 4. One of the fragments may carry a grammatical/usage error in the context of the sentence. Choose the INCORRECT part for your answer. ( If there is no error Choose 5).  Over the New Year weekend,(1)/ that we spent at our farm house, (2)/with family and a few close friends, (3)/ an unlikely name kept popping up in casual conversations.(4)/ No Error (5) OPTIONS     1) 1   2) 2   3) 3   4) 4   5) 5 discuss | yesterday's solution | more questions Tip of the Day Research articles from journals provide reading with a very high level of difficulty. You can intersperse some reading from journals on management or philosophy to challenge yourself, and improve reading speed at such difficulty le