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ACT Aspire Reading: Defining "Metamorphose" in Context 0 Views


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As it is used in the passage, what does the highlighted word metamorphose mean?


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Okay Ccs branch members seven of ten Let's just get

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to it As it's used in the passage what does

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the highlighted word metamor foes mean Done All right Well

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like real life pokemon the tailed frogs first exist as

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tadpoles and then they transform into adults They grow up

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so fast Tissue anyone All right well the tadpoles do

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not get makeovers into adults Makeover sounds like an outside

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forces causing them to turn into adults are like they're

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getting a wardrobe overhaul You know on the cable show

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regressing into an adult doesn't fit because to regress means

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to move backwards So get rid of the right there

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Amphibians start as tadpoles and change into adults not the

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other way around Adapting from tadpole to adult also doesn't

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work because to adapt means to adjust to new conditions

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So get rid of be the tadpoles are not adjusting

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to a condition and becoming adults They're naturally changing as

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they are meant to into adult frogs Okay so that's

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it The answer is c to transform their taking different

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forms All right let's see

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