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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 29-Apr-13

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         29-Apr-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists verbatim  [  ver-BEY-tim  ]   [  adjective, adverb  ]   MEANING :   1. (adv.) in exactly the same words or word for word 2. (adj.) corresponding to the original text word for word 3. (adj.) skilled at recording with a word for word accuracy   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Only the children who could recite the poem verbatim would receive full marks.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Goeglein said he has reached out to the author, Jeffery Hart, whose 1998 writings in the Dartmouth Review he copied nearly verbatim. CNN, White House aide admits plagiarism, resigns, Kathleen Koch, 1 March 2008.   maleficent  [  muh'-LEF-uh'-suh'nt  ]   [  adjective  ]   MEANING :   1. doing harm 2. evil or harmfully malicious 3. with evil in

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 29-Apr-13

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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.         29-Apr-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day Answer the following based on the passage given below. Louis XIV of France has been regarded by historians as the typical absolute monarch - a symbol of his era. Similarly, historians have often referred to this period, when kings dominated their states and waged frequent dynastic wars against one another as an age of absolutism.  Absolute monarchy, admittedly, was not exactly new in Europe. Since the late medieval period, rulers had been attempting to centralize their authority at the expense of feudal nobles and the church. In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, however, religious strife blurred political issues and somewhat restricted developing monarchies. After the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the era of disastrous religi