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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 14-Sep-13

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         14-Sep-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists smirk  [  smurk  ]   [  noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb  ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to simper, smile or express smugly 2. (tr.v.) to smile or simper in a smug manner 3. (n.) a smug smile or the expression on the face of one who smirks   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He smirked simply to annoy her.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Mr Stevenson is a man of great dignity and patience but Mr Zorin's face began to crack, somewhere between a smirk and a sigh. BBC, The last step of brinkmanship, 29 October, 2002   avuncular  [  uh'-vuhng-kyuh'-ler  ]   [  adjective  ]   MEANING :   1. of or something related to an uncle 2. having the characteristics of an uncle   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Although he had been a mediocre student in

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 14-Sep-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.         14-Sep-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day The question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. Overturning the common assumption that evolution occurs gradually over hundreds or thousands of years, researchers have found significant genetically-transmitted changes in laboratory populations of soil mites in just 15 generations, leading to a doubling of the age at which the mites reached adulthood and large changes in population size.______________. OPTIONS     1) The age of maturity of the mites in the tubes doubled over about 15 generations, because they were competing in a different way than they would in the wild.   2) The initial change in the mites' environ

TESTfunda Puzzle of the Week 13-Sep-13

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see the Puzzle of the Week on the Web.         13-Sep-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Puzzle of the Week Puzzle # 278 - "The Curious case of the slippers" 12-Sep-13 Outside a temple, there are 100 slippers corresponding to the 100 people inside the temple. After the ‘pooja’ in the temple gets over, people start coming out to get their slippers. But the first person to come out, accidently picks up someone else’s pair of slippers, wears them and leaves. After that people come one by one and if their own slippers are present there, they wear them and leave but if their slippers are not there, they just pick any pair randomly, wear them and leave. What is the probability that the last person to come out will find his own slippers outside the temple? discuss | more puzzles   Do you have solution! If you think you know the solution submit your solution (do not re