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No And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by the french nobility We say let them eat cake

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Oh wait that's What got him in trouble in the

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first place Yeah no entry following passage in scarlet pimpernel

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think starkly callie shake and tuberculosis operation is doubt fans

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right Baroness all right we're done What is the most

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effective substitution for the underlined part of sentence Eight and

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here the potential answers they are on history Okay so

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the powers that be test central are telling us that

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the word weird is just too weird for the sentence

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to figure out the best replacement word We need to

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know what the author is getting at with this sentence

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If we re read the paragraph we can quickly get

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an idea of where the author is heading Basically it

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didn't seem totally crazy for the nineteen eighty two film

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to show the dolphin being rescued because there was debate

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as to whether the dow fam really died of tuberculosis

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back in the day Some thought it was actually possible

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that he was rescued and his captors made up the

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tv story to cover up for their bad jail's keeping

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skills Well we'll need to keep that in mind as

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we're digging for the right answer Let's nix choice a

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first of all the word bizarre might sound a little

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more fancy than weird but the two words mean pretty

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much the same thing if the powers that be don't

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like that one well they won't like this one either

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same goes for option deke strange bizarre weird They're all

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synonyms and the powers that be aren't gonna go with

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us on this one then it's best that we keep

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them happy otherwise they might send the wrong we don't

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like the drones They mean answer c suggests the word

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inaccurate which sort of fits unfortunately sort of isn't good

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enough The choice makes it sound like the rescue was

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totally fictional with no connections a real history But we

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know that at the time some people did still suspect

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that the dow fan could conceivably have been rescued maybe

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not by a guy wearing a funny wig but still

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you know the best answer is b The point here

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is that at the time the movie was made it

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didn't seem quite as unhitch historical as it does now

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You know because now due to the magic of dna

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testing we know that the kid did die horribly of 00:02:24.25 --> [endTime] tuberculosis Viva la revolucion

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