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

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by the french nobility We say let them eat cake

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Oh wait That's what Got him in trouble in the

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first place No entry following passage on scarlet pimpernel You

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think historical scholarship tuberculosis operation fans with you baroness who

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works here Is that the killer whale All right we're

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done What is the most effective substitution for the underlined

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part of sentence Eight and hear the potential answers Okay

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so the powers that be at test central are telling

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us that the word weird is just too weird for

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this sentence to figure out the best replacement word We

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need to know what the author is getting at with

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this sentence If we re read the paragraph we can

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quickly get an idea of where the author is heading

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Basically it didn't seem totally crazy for the nineteen eighty

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two film to show the dolphin being rescued because there

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was debate as to whether the dolphin really died of

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tuberculosis back in the day Some thought it was actually

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possible that he was rescued and his captors made up

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the tb story to cover up for their bad jail

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keeping Skills we'll need to keep that in mind as

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we're digging for the right answer Let's nix choice a

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first of all word bizarre might sound a little more

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fancy than weird but the two words mean pretty much

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the same thing if the powers that be don't like

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that one well they won't like this one either same

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goes for option d strange bizarre weird They're all synonyms

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and the powers that be aren't gonna go with us

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on this one and it's best that we keep them

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happy otherwise they might send in drones Answer c suggests

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the word inaccurate which sort of fits unfortunately sort of

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ain't good enough choice makes it sound like the rescue

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was totally fictional with no connection in the real history

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but we know that at the time some people did

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still suspect this is dao fan could conceivably have been

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rescued maybe not by a guy wearing a funny wig

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but still you know the best answer is to be

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the point here is that at the time the movie

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was made it didn't seem quite as unhitch historical as

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it does now you know because now there's a magic

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of dna testing We know that the kid did die 00:02:23.663 --> [endTime] horribly of tuberculosis Viva la revolucion Yeah like that

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