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TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 14-Jan-14

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  If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web.         14-Jan-14 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists minutiae  [  mi-NOO-shee-uh', -shuh', -NYOO-  ]   [  noun  ]   MEANING :   trivial, minute, minor or unnecessary details   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The new policies were concerned about the minutiae of every employee.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The BBC declined to comment on Stourton's version of events, saying it would not be "discussing the minutiae" of the situation. BBC, Stourton 'devastated' by removal, 15 December 2008   lustrous  [  LUHS-truh' s  ]   [  adjective  ]   MEANING :   1. shining 2. well-known   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The mobile handset was sleek and had a l...

TESTfunda - CAT Question of the Day 14-Jan-14

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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.         14-Jan-14 TestFunda Home  |  Sign up for Newsletters  |  Feedback CAT Question of the Day The following question contains a paragraph with a missing sentence or part of a sentence. Choose the option that most logically completes the paragraph: On March 22nd, 1869 a young plantation manager in the West Indies wrote an expansive letter to his sister in Essex. Often Henry Bullock only managed to scribble perfunctory notes to his family, but ____, running a sugar estate far from home on the remote coast of British Guiana (now Guyana). He reported what he had done that day: as part of a jury in a capital murder trial, he had reluctantly sent a man to the gallows. OPTIONS     1) his sisters often had to coax from him such scenes, sketching his everyday, domestic existence   2) that...