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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 14-Jan-14

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         14-Jan-14 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists minutiae  [  mi-NOO-shee-uh', -shuh', -NYOO-  ]   [  noun  ]   MEANING :   trivial, minute, minor or unnecessary details   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The new policies were concerned about the minutiae of every employee.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The BBC declined to comment on Stourton's version of events, saying it would not be "discussing the minutiae" of the situation. BBC, Stourton 'devastated' by removal, 15 December 2008   lustrous  [  LUHS-truh' s  ]   [  adjective  ]   MEANING :   1. shining 2. well-known   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The mobile handset was sleek and had a lustrous, metallic body.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A rising generation, meanwhile, knows the carnage and chaos only as a d

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 14-Jan-14

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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-Jan-14 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day The following question contains a paragraph with a missing sentence or part of a sentence. Choose the option that most logically completes the paragraph: On March 22nd, 1869 a young plantation manager in the West Indies wrote an expansive letter to his sister in Essex. Often Henry Bullock only managed to scribble perfunctory notes to his family, but ____, running a sugar estate far from home on the remote coast of British Guiana (now Guyana). He reported what he had done that day: as part of a jury in a capital murder trial, he had reluctantly sent a man to the gallows. OPTIONS     1) his sisters often had to coax from him such scenes, sketching his everyday, domestic existence   2) that year marked the first period of mass uprisings by Indi