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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 17-Jul-12

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         17-Jul-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists presage  [  n. PRES-ij; v. PRES-ij, pri-SEYJ  ]   [  noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb  ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) an omen, prediction or intuition 2. (tr. v.) to predict, warn or foretell 3. (intr. v.) to have a premonition or to foretell   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Hearing the presage sent chills down everyone's spines.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Our members also have wider concerns that the new council will presage further cuts in funding for physical sciences and the early haemorrhage of key staff from the research councils concerned. BBC, UK physics funding to be revamped, 25 July 2006   vanguard  [  VAN-gahrd  ]   [  noun  ]   MEANING :   1. the foremost position in an army advancing into a battle. 2. the foremost or leading position or persons i

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 17-Jul-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.         17-Jul-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day Select the odd man out from the given alternatives. OPTIONS     1) journey   2) passage   3) permission   4) tourist discuss | yesterday's solution | more questions Tip of the Day In the case of paragraph fill-in-the-blanks, use your understanding of the entire paragraph to select an appropriate answer choice. An answer choice that fits into a particular sentence, but does not agree with the tone of the paragraph should not be considered. more tips Last year's Question of the day (16-Jul-11) The prohibition against heretical ideas is strongest when the group in power is nervous. The irony of Galileo's situation was that he got in trouble with the church for repeating Copernicus's ideas. Copernicus himself didn't. In fact, Copernicus was a canon of a cathedra