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Reading: Word Analysis, Problem 1. What does the word ignoble mean?
Reading: Word Analysis, Problem 2. What feeling do the words wrong, remorse, and shame suggest?
Reading: Word Analysis, Problem 3. What is the meaning of the word mediate?
CAHSEE ELA 2.4 Word Analysis 194 Views
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Reading: Word Analysis, Problem 4. What do the underlined words suggest a feeling of?
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- 00:03
Here's a vocabby shmoop do jour... Here's the passage you have to worry about:
- 00:19
Ok so in this passage, the words excited, looking forward, and can't wait suggest a feeling
- 00:25
of.... Uh... what?
- 00:27
Here are the potential answers:
- 00:33
So... what is this question asking? Yeah, how PSYCHED are you?
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- 00:38
Schooool's OUT for SUMMER! --
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No more pencils, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks...
- 00:44
So... does this sound fearful?
- 00:47
No
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Hungry?
- 00:49
Uh.. no. Just no.
- 00:51
Is there gratitude in tone -- answer B? -- well, yes there IS gratitude in there but that's
- 00:58
not what the words EXCITED and LOOKING FORWARD and CAN'T WAIT point to.
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There's only one left -- yeah, The Eager Bunny.
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Answer A, as in "egg." All right, maybe we need a spelling lesson or two, but you
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get the idea.
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