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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 29-Mar-14

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         29-Mar-14 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists extirpate  [  EK-ster-peyt, ik-STUR-peyt  ]   [  transitive verb  ]   MEANING :   1. to destroy or remove completely; exterminate 2. to pull up by; uproot   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The Pakistani army chief's decision to send troops to the Swat valley to extirpate the Taliban was well received both within and outside the country.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   President George W. Bush still favored the Israeli offensive to extirpate Hezbollah from Lebanon. CNN, Tyrell: The commander in chief's blood pressure, Friday, August 4, 2006   deranged  [  di-REYNJD  ]   [  adjective  ]   MEANING :   1. insane, mad or mentally disturbed 2. disordered, disarranged or unbalanced   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The deranged lady was admitt

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 29-Mar-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.         29-Mar-14 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day Answer the question based on the passage given below.   We, as human beings, all make stupid mistakes once every while. But we do not like to view ourselves as being stupid. Rather, we would like to view ourselves as rational, moral beings. How then, can we maintain that positive self-image after we have done something irrational or immoral? Once we have done something that is not in line with our own thoughts, opinions or values, we get an uncomfortable feeling, better known as 'cognitive dissonance'. It is a drive or feeling of discomfort, originally defined as being caused by holding two or more inconsistent cognitions and subsequently defined as being caused by performing an action that is discrepant from one's

TESTfunda Puzzle of the Week 28-Mar-14

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see the Puzzle of the Week on the Web.         28-Mar-14 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Puzzle of the Week Puzzle #306 - "Who am I; I am Y!" 27-Mar-14 Guess me if you can, my name is Y ; Neither do I become equal; in “greater than” or “less than”, my beliefs don’t lie!  Depending on what you give me, I’ll give you the same, less or more; An MBA, MBBS or CA I am not, my degree is four! Four numbers there are that give me the chill; Give them to me and I slide down to nil! If you talk in the system of 0s and 1s, I can only say “take back zero”; Give me its mirror image on the number line, and I still say “take back zero”!   Give me nothing, or one reduced from nothing, I’ll still return a dozen; But for every quarter-dozens that you give; I’ll return five dozen! I accepted ‘1’ the way I would accept a ‘2’; ‘-3’ came and told me – “