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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 04-May-13

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         04-May-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists expostulate  [  ik-SPOS-chuh'-leyt  ]   [  intransitive verb  ]   MEANING :   to remonstrate, object or earnestly reason out with someone in order to dissuade   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She spent the night expostulating the fact that drag racing was a dangerous sport.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The property scout expostulated that he couldn't just land uninvited in someone's garden Telegraph, Dance floors, Susan Ryan, 30 October 2007   wangle  [  WANG-guh'l  ]   [  noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb  ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to obtain by skilfulness 2. (tr. v.) to manipulate 3. (tr. v.) to get out of a difficulty 4. (intr. v.) to use indirect or tricky means 5. (n.) the act of obtaining by trick

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 04-May-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.         04-May-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day What is the digit sum of 1 + 11 1 + 11 2 + 11 3 + 11 4 +………………… + 11 10 ? (Digit sum of a given integer is the sum of all its digits until we get a single digit number. For example: Digit sum of 257 is 2 + 5 + 7 = 14 = 1 + 4 = 5) OPTIONS     1) 7   2) 3   3) 4   4) 2   5) None of these discuss | yesterday's solution | more questions Tip of the Day While eliminating close answer options in reading comprehension passages, a good understanding of the passage helps. Also, look for options that follow the style and tone of the passage as closely as possible. more tips Last year's Question of the day (03-May-12) Complete the sentences with the most appropriate option.  Indifferent as he was to modern amenities, …………………………………………… to

TESTfunda Puzzle of the Week 03-May-13

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see the Puzzle of the Week on the Web.         03-May-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Puzzle of Week Puzzle # 259 - "SHUFFLE THE SOCKS" 02-May-13 Van Persie has 15 black socks and 19 white socks (single sock not pairs) in a drawer. Further he has bought 11 more pairs of white socks so that he has 22 white socks outside the drawer. Now he takes out two socks from the drawer. If both are of the same color, he throws both socks out and puts a white sock back into the drawer from the outside lot. But if both are of different colors he throws out the white sock and places the black sock back into the drawer. He keeps repeating this process so that every time he removes two socks, he places one back into the drawer. Finally he is left with just one sock in the drawer. His friend Jessica, who has been observing him, correctly guesses the color of that sock. If Jess