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CAHSEE 8.3 Passage Drill. The words "pensively", "analyze", and "formulate" in Paragraph 4 suggest a feeling of...what?
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- 00:00
Sorry And here's your smoke du jour Brought to you
- 00:04
by the constellations fact when you connect all the constellations
- 00:09
you get the face of nick jonas Still he'll have
- 00:12
that when no one cares anymore Oh yeah Well pretty
- 00:15
much there now nick All right Humans Consolation throughout history
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- 00:19
Blah blah night Traveling sky from him We read this
- 00:22
like eighty seven times already Stories it's gonna be okay
- 00:26
The words pensively analyze and formulate in paragraph four suggest
- 00:31
a feeling of what And here the potential answers difficult
- 00:36
greenies We have to be careful of the word intensively
- 00:40
here it's waiting to cause trouble like a forgotten land
- 00:42
mine in a flowery meadow The word pensively can be
- 00:45
used to describe somebody who's lost in dreamy thought which
- 00:49
might make us think choice b is the right answer
- 00:52
but the words analyze and formulate don't sound very dreamy
- 00:56
though so we're going to take be out of the
- 00:57
running The word pensively might also lead us astray with
- 01:01
choice Dee that's it the word pensively is not invited
- 01:04
to our next party again hear the words analyze in
- 01:07
formulate negate pensively thiss time by sending distinctly un magical
- 01:11
they're like the muggles of the vocab world All right
- 01:15
option isn't specific to any of the words in question
- 01:18
You can bet our ancestors were facing many difficult challenges
- 01:21
like famine disease and complete lack of self service But
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we're sure there's a better answer here Like oh say
- 01:27
answer c we hear the words pensively analyzed and formulate
- 01:32
and we imagine one of those montages in a movie
- 01:35
where thoughtfully scientists get all science e and solve a
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problem with you know science If only all the world's 00:01:41.848 --> [endTime] problems could be solved with them on no Oh
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