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

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jour brought to you by voting it's that fun thing

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we dio where we check boxes in exchange for a

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cool sticker Wait that's not what we're supposed to do

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Oops All right let's take a look at paragraph for

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the passage right here Travel book in england eighteen thirteen

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In this period of restaurants on neighbors clinton fashion and

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here's our question a synonym closest in meaning to vote

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as it is used in a line thirty three would

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be what And here's potential authorities that agree approve express

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for clint Alright synonym closest in meaning to vote Well

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since nothing in this passage has to do with electing

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someone in public office or kicking someone often island well

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we're gonna have to study entire sentence in order to

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figure out this one full sentence talks about how awesome

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the europeans are getting together to celebrate their differences It's

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kind of like they're patting each other on the back

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for a job well done which is kind of hilarious

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given you know history like wile e coyote and the

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road runner get together for a reunion tour But we

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digress Anyway the author says they like to meet together

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frequently to discuss compare and reason upon their national varieties

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Then once they've done that according to the author of

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a voted a mark of fashion and good taste to

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imitate each other So if they're discussing comparing and reasoning

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which all sounds pretty mellow which of our answers fit

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That kind of description Well to approve sounds too official

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for this kind of setting into a claim which is

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to praise publicly sounds far too grand Meanwhile expressing as

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in expressing an opinion is something a person would do

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during a discussion on after it's already done And finally

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the whole point of the author using this example of

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european harmony is to show how there's no need to

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pick one cultural difference over another so there's no need

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to express a preference one way or the other In

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fact the author paints a good picture of how everyone

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is just well pretty darn agreeable So it makes sense

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that each of the participants would agree to imitate each

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other in all the external embellishments of life whatever the

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heck that means but it does make you wonder doesn't

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it If these european cultures were all getting along so

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wonderfully in eighteen thirty two what was all that business

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with world war one and world war two where they 00:02:12.633 --> [endTime] basically killed each other

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