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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 08-Apr-14

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         08-Apr-14 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists highbrow  [  HAHY-brou  ]   [  noun, verb  ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a person who has or affects a highly cultivated and intellectual taste 2. (v.) of, relating to or being intellectual or cultivated   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Lawrence Durrell's highbrow tetralogy "The Alexandra Quartet" is widely regarded as one of the most important novels of the twentieth century.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   THE post-apocalyptic seems to be all the rage with readers of novels and short stories, both highbrow and low. The Economist, Prize-winning fiction:Apocalypse now, Jul 10th 2008   ensconce  [  en-SKONS  ]   [  transitive verb  ]   MEANING :   1. to conceal, hide or secure snugly 2. to settle or place in a snug or comfor

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 08-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.         08-Apr-14 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day Answer the question based on the passage given below. Intuitively, a business that uses slaves should be profitable. You pay your workers nothing, and reap the benefits of their labour. Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman suggested that slavery in the American South was a lucrative enterprise for plantation owners. They reckoned that slaves were treated pretty well. And this meant that they were productive. So for the owners, slavery was generally a highly profitable investment, which yielded rates of return, that compared favourably with the most outstanding investment opportunities in manufacturing. However, economies, which used slavery, may, in the long run, have been at a disadvantage. According to Eric Williams, although slavery stifl

SBI PO 2014 Notification Out

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          07-Apr-14 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback SBI PO 2014 notification out State Bank of India (SBI) has announced recruitment of Probationary Officers. Written Exam : To be tentatively conducted in June 2014 Online registration : 7th April - 25th April, 2014 Selection Process: There are two phases of the selection process – Written test followed by GDPI 1. Written Exam: