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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 08-Feb-14

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         08-Feb-14 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists serpentine  [  SUR-puh'n-teen, -tahyn  ]   [  noun, adjective, intransitive verb  ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) pertaining to or resembling a serpent 2. (adj.) having a winding course 3. (adj.) shrewd, cunning or wily 4. (n.) a cannon used from the 15th to the 17th century 5. (n.) a school figure made by skating two figure eights that share a single loop 6. (intr. v.) to follow a winding course   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The people who were waiting for the bus had formed a long serpentine queue.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   After a serpentine five-hour drive from the coast along a vertiginous slope, we arrived at Thirunelli. The Telegraph, Tuskers in trouble - man and elephant battle for survival, 1 April 2010.   masticat

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 08-Feb-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.         08-Feb-14 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day Three workers A, B and C are working on a construction site. If they work together they can finish the construction work in 9 hours 36 minutes. However, they worked together for 6 hours and then A left the construction site as he has completed his share of work (i.e., 1/3 rd of the work). If B would have also left at the same time, C would have to work for 18 more hours to complete the remaining work. If A and B work together, then how much time would they require to complete the entire work? OPTIONS     1) 10 hours   2) 12 hours   3) 14 hours   4) 15 hours   5) 18 hours discuss | yesterday's solution | more questions Tip of the Day The most important aspect of your participation in a GD is speaking. Hence, practice a few GDs on dif

TESTfunda Puzzle of the Week 07-Feb-14

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see the Puzzle of the Week on the Web.         07-Feb-14 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Puzzle of the Week Puzzle # 299 - "The Intelligent Trader" 06-Feb-14 Jyotish is a very intelligent trader. He has a godown in Mumbai. He has four boxes with him, each filled to its maximum capacity with ten antique articles.  He has to deliver these articles to a colleague in the Delhi market. However, there are ten stations between Mumbai and Delhi and a railway official gets into the train at all the ten stations for a routine check. Since Jyotish does not have the requisite permits, he has to give one article from each box to the official in every routine check. However, he is lucky enough not to encounter any railway official at the source and destination stations. What is the maximum number of articles that Jyotish can deliver to his colleague?  (He cannot hide the artic