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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 30-Apr-13

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         30-Apr-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists perchance  [  per-CHANS, -CHAHNS  ]   [  adverb  ]   MEANING :   1. perhaps; possible 2. by chance   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The Pakistani cricket coach, Bob Woolmer's death was perchance a murder although the police finally stated that he had died of natural causes.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   They're really doing technical inspections, and if perchance they find something like, you know, a bunch of RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) rounds in somebody's basement, I think it's a no-brainer, said Jack Tomarchio, a senior official in Homeland Security's intelligence division. ABC News, AP: Firefighters Help in War on Terror, By EILEEN SULLIVAN, November 25, 2007   decrepitude  [  di-KREP-i-tood, -tyood  ]   [  adjective  ]   MEANING :   weaknes

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 30-Apr-13

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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.         30-Apr-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day In a trapezium ABCD, BC is twice AD. AD = x and AB is perpendicular to both BC and AD. If a circle inscribed in ABCD has radius r , what is the ratio of r to x ? OPTIONS     1) 3/4   2) 4/5   3) 2/3   4) 1/2   5) None of these discuss | yesterday's solution | more questions Tip of the Day While eliminating options in RC questions, look out for options that contradict ideas from the passage. Even if part of the option contradicts a certain idea, the option can be eliminated on the basis of being partially incorrect. more tips Last year's Question of the day (29-Apr-12) In the following questions a sentence is fragmented into four parts and labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4 are parts of a sentence. One of the fragments may carry a grammatical/usage error in the context of the sent