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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 31-Mar-14

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         31-Mar-14 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists vie  [  vahy  ]   [  intransitive verb, transitive verb  ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to compete or struggle for supremacy 2. (intr.v.) to strive for victory or compete   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She vied for the position for six years.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Several Germans will vie to set a record for the Most Juice Extracted from Grapes by Treading. CNN, Thousands pursue wacky world records, November 13, 2008   vituperative  [  vahy-TOO-per-uh'-tiv, -puh-rey-tiv, -TYOO-, vi-  ]   [  adjective  ]   MEANING :   abusive or containing abusive censure   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His vituperative address to the media was renounced by the government.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   China changed its mind after vituperative outbursts o

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 31-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.         31-Mar-14 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day From among the options, choose the summary of the passage that is written in the same style as that of the passage.   It would be misleading to specify a strict definition of free will since there is probably no single concept of it. For the most part, what philosophers working on this issue have been hunting for, maybe not exclusively, but centrally, is a feature of agency that is necessary for persons to be morally responsible for their conduct. Different attempts to articulate the conditions for moral responsibility will yield different accounts of the sort of agency required to satisfy those conditions. What is needed, then, as a starting point, is a gentle, malleable notion that focuses upon special features of persons as