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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         27-Oct-11 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists cathartic  [  kuh'-THAHR-tik  ]   [  noun, adjective  ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) something that pertains to or induces catharsis 2. (n.) a purgative or laxative   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The laxative proved to be very cathartic.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Music can unlock emotional problems. It is particularly helpful with grief where people can find music very cathartic. BBC, 'My music helps healing', 29 December, 2002   abstract  [  AB-strakt, ab-STRAKT  ]   [  noun, adjective, transitive verb  ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) considered apart from concrete realities, specific objects or actual instances 2. (adj.) depending s...

  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see the Question of the Day and Tip of the Day on the Web.         27-Oct-11 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day The Indemnity Act of 1767, which gave the East India Company a refund of the duty on tea that was re-exported to the colonies, expired in 1772. Parliament passed a new act in 1772 that reduced this refund, effectively leaving a 10% duty on tea imported into Britain. The act also restored the tea taxes within Britain that had been repealed in 1767, and left in place the three pence Townshend duty in the colonies. With this new tax burden driving up the price of British tea, sales plummeted. The company continued to import tea into Great Britain, however, amassing a huge surplus of product that no one would buy. For these and other reasons, by late 1772 the East India Company, one of Britain's most important commercial institutions, was in a ...