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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         09-Jan-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists perennial  [  puh'-REN-ee-uh' l  ]   [  noun, adjective  ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) existing throughout the year 2. (adj.) persisting for a very long time 3. (adj.) recurrent or perpetual 4. (n.) a plant that is perennial in nature 5. (n.) a recurrent phenomenon or thing   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The perennial tropical climate of Florida makes it an attractive destination for tourists from more temperate regions.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   According to data from NASA's QuikSCAT satellite, between 2004 and 2005 the Arctic lost an unprecedented 14 percent of its perennial sea ice (shown in white)—some 280,000 square miles (725,000 square kilometers), or an area the s...

  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see the Question of the Day and Tip of the Day on the Web.         09-Jan-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day In 1940, Pilecki presented to his superiors a plan to enter Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp at Oświęcim (the Polish name of the locality), gather intelligence on the camp from the inside, and organize inmate resistance. Until then, little had been known about the Germans' running of the camp, and it was thought to be an internment camp or large prison rather than a death camp. His superiors approved the plan and provided him a false identity card in the name of "Tomasz Serafiński." On September 19, 1940, he deliberately went out during a Warsaw street roundup (łapanka), and was caught by the Germans along with some 2,000 innocent civilians (among them, Władysław Bartoszewski). After two days of torture in Wehrmacht barracks, he was s...