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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         24-Aug-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists pedantic  [  puh'-DAN-tik  ]   [  adjective  ]   MEANING :   1. learned in a narrow, stodgy or ostentatious manner 2. pedestrian or unimaginative 3. pertaining or related to a pedant   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Students quickly lost interest because of the pedantic methodology employed by the teachers.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Plain English doesn't want to be too pedantic about language, although '10 items or fewer' is grammatically correct, it can sound cumbersome. BBC, When to use 'fewer' rather than 'less'?, 1 September 2008   polity  [  POL-i-tee  ]   [  noun  ]   MEANING :   1. a poli...

  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see the Question of the Day and Tip of the Day on the Web.         24-Aug-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day Let a , b and c be positive real numbers. What is the nature of the roots of the equation ( x – a )( x – b ) + ( x – b )( x – c ) + ( x – c )( x – a ) = 0? OPTIONS     1) Real and distinct   2) Real and equal   3) Complex   4) Cannot be determined discuss | yesterday's solution | more questions Tip of the Day While attempting Critical Reasoning questions such as strengthen / weaken the argument, assumption / conclusion of the paragraph etc. read the question stem first, even before reading the given paragraph. This helps in zeroing down on one core idea without getting boggled by a lot of data given in the paragraph. more tips Last year's Question of the day (23-Aug-...

  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see the Puzzle of the Week on the Web.         23-Aug-13 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Puzzle of the Week Puzzle # 275 - "Poor Vegetable Vendor" 22-Aug-13 Sarita is the wife of a farmer. She visits the market everyday and sells the vegetables that her husband harvests. She sells vegetables in multiples of 1 kg to a maximum of 100 kg per sale. A new government rule has forced her to buy a standard set of weights. She, like most other vendors uses a standard balancing scale with two pans. She does not want to spend too much money on the new weights and would like to get it done in the smallest number of weights. What are the weights that she should buy? Assume that all the weights cost the same irrespective of their weight and you can buy weights weighing any integral multiple of 1 kg. discuss | more puzzles   Do you have solut...