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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 20-Aug-12

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         20-Aug-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists leer  [  leer  ]   [  noun  ]   MEANING :   a sidelong look that indicates sly and malicious intent   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The young girl wearing a micro-mini dress and walking with a provocative gait made onlookers leer.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Most impressively, he won a role of a lifetime as The Joker, complete with a lipstick-smeared leer, in The Dark Knight, this summer's highly anticipated follow-up to 2005's Batman Begins. ABC News, Heath Ledger: A Budding Career Cut Tragically Short, By SUSAN WLOSZCZYNA, Jan. 23, 2008   doctrine  [  DOK-trin  ]   [  noun  ]   MEANING :   1. a principle, belief system, or policy that is taught or advocated 2. something that is taught 3. a principle or rule of law

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 20-Aug-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.         20-Aug-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day Answer the question based on the passage given below. Vegetable-tanned leather is tanned using tannin and other ingredients found in vegetable matter, such as tree bark prepared in bark mills, and other such sources. It is supple and brown in color, with the exact shade depending on the mix of chemicals and the color of the skin. It is the only form of leather suitable for use in leather carving or stamping. Vegetable-tanned leather is not stable in water; it tends to discolor, and if left to soak and then dry it will shrink and become less supple and harder. In hot water, it will shrink drastically and partly gelatinize, becoming rigid and eventually brittle. Boiled leather is an example of this, where the leather has been hardened by bei