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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         03-Sep-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists mausoleum  [  maw-suh'-LEE-uh' m, -zuh'-  ]   [  noun  ]   MEANING :   1. an impressive and splendid tomb 2. a small building used to bury the remains of individuals esp. of those belonging to the same family 3. a large, gloomy room or building   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The Taj Mahal is probably the most famous mausoleum in the world.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Hadrian also set in train a vast public building programme including the Pantheon, his villa at Tivoli and even his own mausoleum -- now known as the Castel Sant'Angelo. Mirror, History of Hadrian has echoes today, By Jeremy Lovell, LONDON (Reuters), 22/07/2008   dour  [  doo' r, douuh' r, DOU-er  ]   [  adjective  ]   MEANING :   1. gloomy; sullen; bleak 2. stubborn; obstinate

  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see the Question of the Day and Tip of the Day on the Web.         03-Sep-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day Answer the question based on the passage given below. The work of the Brothers Grimm influenced other collectors, both inspiring them to collect tales and leading them to similarly believe, in a spirit of romantic nationalism, that the fairy tales of a country were particularly representative of it, to the neglect of cross-cultural influence. Among those influenced were the Russian Alexander Afanasyev, the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, the English Joseph Jacobs, and Jeremiah Curtin, an American who collected Irish tales. There was not always a pleased reaction to their collection. Joseph Jacobs was in part inspired by his complaint that English children did not read English fairy tales; in his own words, "What Perrault began, the Grimms completed"