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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         27-Jan-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists mordant  [  MAWR-dnt  ]   [  noun, adjective, transitive verb  ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) caustic or bitingly sarcastic 2. (n.) a chemical used to fix a dye 3. (n.) a substance used for corrosion 4. (tr. v.) to treat by using a mordant   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The Statesman is known for its impartial and mordant editorials.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   That he laces them with mordant humour and haunting grace notes merely highlights his uncommon genius. Telegraph, Import Export: a profoundly moral X-ray, Sukhdev Sandhu, 01/10/2008   bode  [  bohd  ]   [  intransitive verb, tr...

  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see the Question of the Day and Tip of the Day on the Web.         27-Jan-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day The efforts of ancient thinkers to determine what makes poetry distinctive as a form, and what distinguishes good poetry from bad, resulted in "poetics"—the study of the aesthetics of poetry. Some ancient societies, such as the Chinese through the Shi Jing, one of the Five Classics of Confucianism, developed canons of poetic works that had ritual as well as aesthetic importance. More recently, thinkers have struggled to find a definition that could encompass formal differences as great as those between Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Matsuo Bashō's Oku no Hosomichi, as well as differences in context spanning Tanakh religious poetry, love poetry, and rap. Which of the following woul...