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And here's your shmoopy word du jour:

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My mom was upset that I hadn't passed my math test;

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I mollified her by saying that I would study for two minutes a night instead of only one.

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What is the BEST way to replace mollified her?

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And here are the potential answers:

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OK, so what is this question asking?

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Do we know the word MOLLIFIED?

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And it doesn't mean "to become like Molly."

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Let's go back and think about the sentence itself.

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Mom's bummed out at us over the C minus in geometry...

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...we can kiss our iPhone goodbye for a while...

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...but what is it that we're gonna do to get her off our back by doubling our study

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time? Let's take a quick scan of the answers to

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see if there's anything that stands out.

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How about answer A -- did we make her quite happy with our solution?

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Well... kinda maybe sorta -- but she wasn't all that happy that we were in this position

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in the first place; so it's not exactly sunshine and roses...

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In fact, the best we can probably do is to just make her... LESS bummed out at us -- or

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less ... angry.

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So answer B is looking pretty good so far.

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Scan C and we got an easy no -- you certainly didn't make her angrier at you by offering

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to study more...

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And then D -- ignore her? Uh... no -- you don't do that until you've moved OUT of the house.

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So it isn't D either.

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The answer is B. As in "Buckle down and get those grades up."

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