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Common Core 8th Grade 1.4 Reading Literary Text. What does the word astonishment most likely mean in this sentence?
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Thank you We sneak in and who's your smoked You
- 00:05
sure Brought to you by wallets it's where we keep
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twenty thousand receipts gum wrappers a handful of change and
- 00:11
well not much I read this ends from perseus and
- 00:14
the gorgons by nathaniel ha To the astonishment of perseus
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- 00:18
the small embroidered wallet which he had hung about his
- 00:21
neck and which had hitherto been no bigger than a
- 00:24
first grew all at once large enough to contain medusa's
- 00:27
head and here's Our question All right what is the
- 00:31
word astonishment most likely mean in this sense and hear
- 00:35
the atlanta think All right Well let's Look at answer
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a first While perseus wallet has magical powers perseus himself
- 00:44
does not All perseus has his brute strength and decapitated
- 00:48
gorgon head that he's a riot party that means phaseout
- 00:51
about seeks large and spacious Get in the wall in
- 00:55
his large and spacious heck it's big enough fit medusa's
- 00:58
head butt Considering perseus has just plain all human size
- 01:02
you can eliminate c d horrified terror while theoretically percy's
- 01:06
could be horrified by his magically expanding wallet But considering
- 01:10
the word astonishment doesn't carry a negative connotation we can
- 01:13
safely eliminate the well That leaves us with be extreme
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amazement We don't know about you but if our wallets
- 01:20
suddenly grew into a purse big enough to contain it
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ed we'd be pretty amazed and that it wasn't spilling
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our way also probably wouldn't use it to carry around
- 01:28
heads but that's neither here nor there since amazed is
- 01:32
a synonym too astonished We know that the correct answer
- 01:35
is b that you answer that question away ahead of
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us didn't have time and no you can't buy a
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magic expanding person Macy's i have to ask for my
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any green alone you've heard We hear she can be
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a real witch way back He's a riot at parties
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