**~*~*~*~* Fraternity Briefs; April 1, 2017 ~*~*~*~***

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**~*~*~*~* Fraternity Briefs; April 1, 2017 ~*~*~*~***

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QUIZ CORNER (\_/)_(\_/)_(\_/)_(\_/)_(\_/)_(\_/)

1. India Trims Coin : What 14 letter can be found by rearranging letters in this anagram?

2. An estate of 3, 330 Million is to be divided in six unequal shares. The peculiar condition in the will is that in a share three different digits should be used and only those three digits should be used for other shares in different order. 

Can you find the amounts of different shares?
Clue: The difference between the biggest and smallest share is 396.

3.   When a letter is added to any one of the following words that will convert another word (in some order of the letters will change). Find five different letters and five pairs of words changed by them. Each letter converts two words.

Ink,Rage, air, Sort,Star
Pet, Laid, Rat, kin, near

4. Vocabulary Exercise 
Do you know the meaning of the following words and difference in their meaning.
Ludicrous . ridiculous, stupid. stupidity, fool. foolhardy, churlish, naïve


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QUOTABLE QUOTES

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April 1.  This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.  ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.  ~Chinese Proverb

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
~Robert Frost, "Cluster of Faith," 1962

Let us be thankful for the fools.  But for them the rest of us could not succeed.  ~Mark Twain

If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.  ~Welsh Proverb

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.  ~Japanese Proverb

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.  ~Abraham Lincoln

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.  ~Will Rogers

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Solution to the Quiz Corner _(\_/)_(\_/)_(\_/)_(\_/)_

1. Discrimination

2. 753, 735, 573. 537, 375 and 357

3.  Rage and air become Large and Liar by adding letter L.
Sort and Star become short and trash by adding lettePet H.
Pet and kin become step and skin or sink by adding letter S.
Laid and near become daily and yearn by adding letter Y.
Ink and Rat become Pink and Part by adding letter P.

4.  Ludicrous means something is silly enough to cause amusement. Ridiculous means it’s absurd enough to invite mockery or derision. Ludicrous has a more playful and amusing sense than ridiculous. Ridiculous We use ridiculous when something is absurd enough to be laughable. Saying something is ridiculous often means you think it deserves mockery or disrespect. 

stupid
adjective, stupider, stupidest.
1. lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
2. characterized by or proceeding from mental dullness; foolish; senseless: a stupid question.
3. tediously dull, especially due to lack of meaning or sense; inane; pointless: a stupid party.
4. annoying or irritating; troublesome:
Turn off that stupid radio.
5. in a state of stupor; stupefied:
stupid from fatigue.
6. Slang. excellent; terrific.
noun
7. Informal. a stupid person.
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stupidity
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noun, plural stupidities for . 
1. the state, quality, or fact of being stupid.
2. a stupid act, notion, speech, etc.


fool
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noun
1. a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense.
2. a professional jester, formerly kept by a person of royal or  noble rank for amusement:
the court fool.
3. a person who has been tricked or deceived into appearing  or acting silly or stupid:
to make a fool of someone.

foolhardy
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adjective, foolhardier, foolhardiest.
1. recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.

churlish
adjective
1. like a churl; boorish; rude:
churlish behavior.
2. of a churl; peasantlike.
3. niggardly; mean.
4. difficult to work or deal with, as soil.

boorish
adjective
1. of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.

or naïve
adjective
1. having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated; ingenuous.
2. having or showing a lack of experience, judgment, or information; credulous:
She's so naive she believes everything she reads. He has a very naive attitude toward politics.
3. having or marked by a simple, unaffectedly direct style reflecting little or no formal training or technique:
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