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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 18-May-13

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         18-May-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists loiter  [  LOI-ter  ]   [  intransitive verb, transitive verb  ]   MEANING :   1. (intr.v.) to dawdle or wander or idle away in an aimless manner 2. (intr.v.) to lag behind or proceed slowly 3. (tr.v.) to unnecessarily pass time or dawdle   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was caught loitering and was asked to leave.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The park is also an important sanctuary for both black and white rhino - easily spotted resting beneath acacia trees while colonies of baboons loiter in the branches above. Telegraph, Kenya: Visit Lake Nakuru National Park and see over a million flamingos, 16 Jan 2009   morbid  [  MAWR-bid  ]   [  adjective  ]   MEANING :   1. excessively gloomy and susceptible to unwholesome and ill fe

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 18-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.         18-May-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day For two sets A and B having non-zero intersection  (((A – B') ∩ (B' – A)' ∪ (A' ∩ B))' ∩ (A – B)')' is equal to? OPTIONS     1) A ∪ B   2) A ∩ B   3) A – B   4) B – A   5) None of these discuss | yesterday's solution | more questions Tip of the Day In fill-in-the-blank questions, you can rule out options that result in grammatically incorrect sentences. Further, the correct option will match the style and tone of the sentence, and can be detected on the basis of this. more tips Last year's Question of the day (17-May-12) From among the options, choose the summary of the passage that is written in the same style as that of the passage.  A vast archive of tobacco-industry documents shows that, as early as

TESTfunda Puzzle of the Week 17-May-13

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see the Puzzle of the Week on the Web.         17-May-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Puzzle of Week Puzzle # 261 - "PHILOSOPHER'S STONE" 16-May-13 After a lifetime spent in trying to find the Philosopher's stone (a stone that can turn metals into gold) you believe you may have finally found its location. After decoding all the clues you reach the tomb of Dovakhiin in a pyramid in Egypt. After exploring several rooms in the pyramid you finally reach the tomb of the legendary Dovahkiin. Above the coffin is an inscription which means the following after translation: "Buried with Dovahkiin are stones 51 in number. But useless 50, its just the gold maker that you seek. If tip of one is touched to the middle of another, the latter may turn gold It is true of any stone save the one you seek which is special Every stone its tip touches turns to gold but no stone can ever turn the gold