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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 13-Aug-13

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         13-Aug-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists harridan  [  HAHR-i-dn  ]   [  noun  ]   MEANING :   a hag or nasty, vicious or scolding old woman   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She was termed a harridan and a trouble maker.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Our mother Fay, played by Alison Steadman, is depicted as an overbearing Jewish harridan with a heavy German accent, whereas she was born in London and had an English accent. BBC, Cogan court action fails, 26 July, 2002   ichthyology  [  ik-thee-OL-uh'-jee  ]   [  noun  ]   MEANING :   a branch of zoology that is concerned with the study of fishes   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was an avid reader in the field of ichthyology.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Monod finally returned to Paris in 1965, to take up a chair of African Ichthyolog

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 13-Aug-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.         13-Aug-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day Answer the question based on the passage given below. The subject matter of Rawls's theory of justice is societal practices and institutions. Some social institutions can provoke envy and resentment. Others can foster alienation and exploitation. Rawls's original thought is that equality, or a fair distribution of advantages, is to be addressed as a background matter by constitutional and legal provisions that structure social institutions. While fair institutions will influence the life chances of everyone in society, they will leave individuals free to exercise their basic liberties as they see fit within this fair set of rules. To carry out this central idea, Rawls takes as the subject matter of A Theory of Justice "the basic