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PSAT 1.3 Reading Narrative Walkthrough. In the context of the passage, the author's use of the word "intoxicated" in line 1 is primarily meant to convey the idea that...what?

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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by extramarital affairs It should come as

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no surprise that one member of the animal kingdom who's

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had the most of them is the cheetah Okay check

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out this passage thanks for loving and and gradually renounce

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Fears Took obama for eleven talking and she listened playing

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overhead all right in the context of the passage the

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author's use of the word intoxicated in line one is

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primarily meant to convey the idea that what and hear

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potential answers hi jealousy on ability Uh oh Sounds like

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somebody can't hold their affection Better cut her off after

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one more Or uh you won't be able to drive

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home Okay so yeah we're told that love had intoxicated

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emma And we're supposed to figure out what the writer

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meant by that Was he saying that a her jealousy

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had led to alcohol dependence Well nice try captain Literal

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Yeah One definition of intoxication involves inviting a bit more

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than recommended dose of booze to the point that one's

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judgment and not to mention ability to tie shoe laces

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is impaired But that's not what's happening here She's drunk

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on love not liquor So we can mix egg What

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about c better love blind her to road offs Faults

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Well it might have but this passage doesn't get into

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any of those faults For all we know this guy's

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perfection personified Although considering what a nutcase is emma seems

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to be He doesn't appear to have the best taste

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in women so well he's probably human Did her dependence

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on road off lied to paranoia Well her department's preceded

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her paranoia And yeah the passage certainly does say that

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she became paranoid but that's quite A bit different than

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her dependence flat out leading her to paranoia In fact

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the passage even makes the distinction clear stating that at

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first love had intoxicated her But now she feared tto

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lose etcetera etcetera so two totally separate and independent events

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All right and here we are option b emma's Love

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clouded her ability to reason Clearly true dat be tells

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it like it is if you've ever been in love

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or even just crushing really hard on someone Well you

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may have noticed that the rational part of your brain

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doesn't exactly take over which could explain why you once

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promised that guy you met at summer camp You'd have

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his name tattooed in the center of your forehead Also 00:02:28.15 --> [endTime] you really wish they could have spelled bob correctly

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