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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 02-Dec-12

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         02-Dec-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists magnanimous  [  mag-NAN-uh'-muh' s  ]   [  adjective  ]   MEANING :   1. noble of mind and heart; high-minded 2. forgiving, not holding onto grudges; not revengeful or vindictive 3. characterised by great generosity or nobility of action   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The magnanimous industrialist built many educational institutes for the poor.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The Rs 70,000-crore debt waiver scheme for farmers is, by all standards, magnanimous. The Times Of India, Govt not OK with fence eating farm loan waiver, Shishir Arya, 10 Jul 2008, TNN   innovate  [  IN-uh'-veyt  ]   [  intransitive verb, transitive verb  ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to make, begin or devise something new or alter something that already ex

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 02-Dec-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.         02-Dec-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day Answer the question based on the passage given below. At the death of an old friend, G.B. Hunter, and then of her father, Elizabeth Browning's health faded again, centering around deteriorating lung function. She was moved from Florence to Siena, residing at the Villa Alberti. Deeply engrossed in Italian politics, she issued a small volume of political poems titled Poems before Congress (1860) "most of which were written to express her sympathy with the Italian cause after the outbreak of fighting in 1859". They caused a furore in England and she was labelled as a fanatic by conservative magazines Blackwood's and the Saturday Review. She dedicated this book to her husband. Her last work was A Musical Instrument, published p