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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 18-Sep-13

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         18-Sep-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists machinations  [  mak-uh'-NEY-shuh'nz  ]   [  noun  ]   MEANING :   1. a cunning scheme or crafty plot 2. an intriguing and underhand plot   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Their gruesome machinations of the witch flopped and the children escaped unharmed.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In short, there are some invaluable events for budding filmmakers, especially for those who want to know more about the machinations of the UK film industry. BBC, festivals & awards 2009, James Rocarols, 20 July 2009.   chagrin  [  shuh'-GRIN  ]   [  noun, verb  ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a feeling of mental unease or embarrassment due to failure 2. (v.) to cause embarrassment   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   To his chagrin, the show ended just as

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 18-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.         18-Sep-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day The statement(s) below are the summary of a paragraph. Choose the option that best represents the paragraph that was summarized. As an evolved species that reached its modern form 30,000 BP or earlier in the late Pleistocene era, we members of the species homo sapiens share the same perceptual, affective, and cognitive systems. These not only register the way the world is, they organize our engagement with the world in ways that reflect our common interests and concerns. We want and need the necessities first for survival and then for raising children to an age at which they too can raise children to maturity, this being the measure of our successful evolutionary adaptation. That is, we seek and value fresh air and clean water, food, shelte