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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
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jour brought to you by haunted houses How do you
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know there's aware wolf in your house All the towels
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smell like wet dog I checked the following passage on
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the yellow wallpaper Fascinating as used in paragraph one Untended
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nted most nearly means what And here the potential answers
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Not tempted All right Well even if we've never seen
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the word untended it'd in our lives we can still
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get this one right All we need is the magic
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of context Clues The first couple of sentences of the
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paragraph Give us all we need Your narrator is saying
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that she and her husband are average ordinary people who
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somehow managed to score a stay in a huge mansion
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The place is so nice that she's suspicious of why
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they were able to stay there she even suspects it
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might be haunted because it seems too good to be
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true It sounds like this story could go the way
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of the shining in any moment But anyway how does
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all this context help us Well two of these answered
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choices claim that the house is in bad shape B
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says it's in poor condition and see says it needs
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maintenance But if the place where he dumped there be
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no mystery as to why the narrator and her husband
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could afford it Whole point is that they got a
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super nice place For a super cheap price which does
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sound a little too good to be true plus we'd
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be prying up floorboards looking for bodies or a well
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maybe we just find another place We'll also nick's option
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A place might be suspiciously cheap but the narrator never
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says anything about it being undesirable again It's a really
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sweet place and she's a maid she's there So by
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little process of elimination we come to d the correct
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answer There's Actually i huge clue in the word itself
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If we know what the word tenant means A tenant
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is someone who rents a living space or commercial space
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right The prefix un means not so untended it'd means
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not tenanted or not rented or inhabited Oh yeah knowing
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the meaning of tenant helps us avoid all that rigmarole
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with contacts Welcome we say life's easier when you know 00:02:03.698 --> [endTime] stuff
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