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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 05-Apr-14

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         05-Apr-14 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists distaff  [  DIS-taf, -tahf  ]   [  noun, adjective  ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a staff with a cleft that is used to hold flax, wool or tow in spinning 2. (n.) the female esp. maternal side or branch of the family 3. (adj.) female or pertaining to the female or maternal side or branch of the family   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She wrapped the wool thread around the distaff.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The ability to sort everything by date, site, or most visited appears to have joined the distaff and spindle on the ash heap. abcNews, Google's Chrome: 7 Reasons for It and 7 Reasons Against It, J. R. Raphael, PC World, September 2, 2008   temperate  [  TEM-per-it, TEM-prit  ]   [  adjective  ]   MEANING :   1. moderate or sel

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 05-Apr-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.         05-Apr-14 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day A, B, C, D, and E start a firm by investing a sum of 95 Lakhs. The profit at the end of the year is to be distributed as per the investment and the amount of work that they do as explained in the following example. If the ratio of investment of A to B in the simplest form is a : b and they complete x and y units of work, then the profit would be shared in the ratio ( a + x ) : ( b + y ) where all a , b , x and y are whole numbers. Following facts about their investments and the amount of work are known. C invests two thirds of the money invested by A and D. D invests one fourth of the sum of money invested by A, B and C. E invests three fourth of the money invested by C. B invests six seventh of the sum invested by C and E. A works six

TESTfunda Puzzle of the Week 04-Apr-14

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see the Puzzle of the Week on the Web.         04-Apr-14 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Puzzle of the Week Puzzle#307 - "The Wordlock Game" 03-Apr-14 Ross, Rachel, Monica and Joey are playing the Wordlock game. Ross is the Wordlock of the game and Rachel is his assistant. She has to help Ross guess the word that Joey has chosen. Joey, being Joey, has selected a word that does not make sense at all. His friend, Monica, has twisted it to make Joey and Rachel’s life miserable. Monica first converts each letter of the word to its numerical position in the alphabet. Then she encrypts each number and gives Ross a clue for each encryption. She sources her clues from areas as varied as names of months and days of a week, rate charts, number classifications etc. The code is called N . Monica’s clues are: 1. Days in a week × Count( N ) = Modal value of days in a month