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ASVAB Word Knowledge: Vocab List Drill 3, Problem 1. Which of these words is closest in meaning to accolades?
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[ musical flourish ]
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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by books.
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Think of them like lots of text messages stapled together.
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All right, yeah, they're cool.
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Check out the following sentence.
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The book received many accolades for its intimate look
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at border warfare.
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All right, the word accolades
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most nearly means... what?
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[ mumbles ]
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Looks like this book closely examined border warfare
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and people took notice. Let's begin at the top.
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A - criticisms.
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Hmm. They're judgments based on something's merit,
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like on The Voice or American Idol. Yeah, like that.
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A book that looked closely at war could be criticized,
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but that's not the correct definition here.
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And don't confuse accolades with acolytes.
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Those are followers of an ideology.
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You know, like a devil worshipper... something like that.
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So we're gonna go ahead and eliminate a similar word, C - adherents.
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And D - edits are changes
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or revisions. Maybe our government would
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edit anything that looked too closely at war,
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but that doesn't fit the context here.
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So we're left with option B - honors.
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Accolades are praises and honors, as in
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people liked the book because it looked closely at a difficult subject.
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So B is the correct answer.
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Man, thanks to the ASVAB, we'll be earning accolades
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for the quality of vocab we use in our text messages.
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LOL, baby.
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