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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by graduation speeches Hopefully ones that don't quote dr seuss

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All right check the following passage Green eggs and ham

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Folks Think All right enough marketing done reading All right

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here we go Read this excerpt from the selection ready

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These are my best friends my classmates After today my

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fellow alumni i told myself well which of the following

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is the best way to express the meaning of the

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word alumni in the sentence and hear the potential answers

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people definitely people All right this one's mega easy if

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we know the definition of the word alumni but even

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if we don't know the meaning or if it was

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wiped from our brains during that recent alien abduction probing

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waken still figure it out All right let's kick beat

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the curve First of all no Where in the segment

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does the narrator say that she's not going to be

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friends with her fellow classmates after graduation Although a graduation

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speech in which he ended all friendships by announcing exactly

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what you didn't like about all of them would probably

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do the trick The speaker doesn't seem to have any

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plans to annihilate friendship today though so we're sure b

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is on the wrong track If we were kind of

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barely paying attention we might pick option c Narrator does

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say that her classmates are her best friend Well but

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come on really all of them She must be way

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more popular than we weren't deal anyway The key phrase

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in the segment is after today her classmates will transform

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into alumni after today since they're already close friends according

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to speaker we're sure that c can't be right Using

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this logic We know that option d can only be

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right at the graduation ceremony was followed by some huge

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catastrophe There's no indication of passenger with america's colleges in

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a tsunami zone or anything like that So across the

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off the list which leaves us with a is the

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correct answer After today the one thing these kids will

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all have in common is that they all graduated from

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the same school That and they will all soon learn 00:01:59.761 --> [endTime] the joys of enormous student loan debt

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