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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 16-Jan-14

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         16-Jan-14 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists matriarch  [  MEY-tree-ahrk  ]   [  noun  ]   MEANING :   1. a female or woman heading or leading a group, family or tribe 2. a mother or woman who is highly respected   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The matriarch of the household, often the wife of the senior most male member, wields supreme power in tackling domestic issues.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Long before Big Brother, there was reality TV in the form of The Family, which featured Margaret Wilkins, matriarch of a Reading household, the subject of a 1974 BBC series. BBC, A good life now over, By Nick Serpell, 1 September 2008   infuse  [  in-FYOOZ  ]   [  transitive verb  ]   MEANING :   1. to pour into 2. to absorb flavour by soaking in a liquid 3. to permeate 4. to

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 16-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.         16-Jan-14 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day Answer the question based on the passage given below.   Children tend to swallow anything from buttons to toy parts or coins when they're young. But try to get them to swallow a tiny pill and it can often end in tears and frustration. So how do you get a young sick child to take tablets? A recent study from the Netherlands suggests that the tricks tried by parents and doctors to get medicine into their children - grinding up a pill into jam, squirting a plastic syringe-full of medicine into the mouth or simply bribing a child to swallow medicines - are not necessary. It analyzed the acceptability of placebo, or dummy medicines. Parents were asked to give their children aged between 1 and 4 years - a pill or spoonful of medicine at hom