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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 25-Nov-13

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         25-Nov-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists effete  [  i-FEET  ]   [  adjective  ]   MEANING :   1. infertile; sterile; unable to produce 2. depleted of all vitality, effectiveness, or strength 3. characterised by decadence, self-indulgence or triviality 3. over refined; soft due to a pampered upbringing   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The actor's effete ways irked the audience.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The figure of Satan appears as a very effete character throughout the film, but not everybody will understand that. BBC, The Passion Of The Christ   suture  [  SOO-cher  ]   [  noun, transitive verb  ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) the act of surgically sewing together two edges of a wound 2. (n.) the fibre used to sew two parts together 3. (n.) the line of junction of

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 25-Nov-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.         25-Nov-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day The question below contains a paragraph followed by alternative summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the paragraph. People are not alone in waging war. Their closest living cousins, chimpanzees, also slaughter their own kind—in brutal attacks that primatologists increasingly view as strategic,  co-ordinated assaults rather than random acts of violence. But however tempting it is to see these battles through the lens of human warfare, the motives for chimp-on-chimp violence are poorly understood. In particular, researchers have long debated whether the apes fight for land, or for females.  A report just published in Current Biology may help to settle the question. Drawing on a decade of observations in the field, it conclude