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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         17-Mar-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists propitiate  [  pruh'-PISH-ee-eyt  ]   [  transitive verb  ]   MEANING :   1. to reconcile, appease, pacify or mollify   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   A treaty ensured that the warring sides propitiated and peace ensued.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   To suggest audibly that officials should give the benefit of any doubt to Budge in order to propitiate the demonstrative crowd was not calculated to bring favour, though, being familiar with champions who talk to themselves on the court, I did not share their indignation. Telegraph, Fred Perry sets up American record, By A. Wallis Myers, 08 Sep 2008   apropos  [...

  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see the Question of the Day and Tip of the Day on the Web.         17-Mar-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day Stephen King was born September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. When King was two years old, his father left the family under the pretense of "going to buy a pack of cigarettes," leaving his mother to raise King and his adopted older brother, David, by herself, sometimes under great financial strain. The family moved to De Pere, Wisconsin, Fort Wayne, Indiana and Stratford, Connecticut. When King was eleven years old, the family returned to Durham, Maine, where Ruth King cared for her parents until their deaths. She then became a caregiver in a local residential facility for the mentally challenged.  As a child, King apparently witnessed one of his friends being struck and killed b...

  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see the Puzzle of the Week on the Web.         16-Mar-12 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Puzzle of Week The Tricky Triangular 15-Mar-12 Kolkata Kamikazes (KK), Mumbai Marauders (MM) and Delhi Destroyers (DD) play a triangular cricket tournament which consists of three games namely - KK v/s MM, KK v/s DD and MM v/s DD. The scores made by the three teams in the matches were amongst the following figures: 324, 277, 289, 300, 244, and 261. The team who wins the maximum number of games wins the tournament. The team with second highest number will be the first runner up and the team with least number of wins will be second runner up.   The following peculiarities were noticed after the tournament got over.   1) The team that scored the maximum number of runs in its two matches unfortunately ended up as the second runner up and the team that scored the minimum numb...