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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the Bureau of

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Land Management located just next door to the bureau of bureau management some [Bureau of bureau management building]

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of those dressers can get a bit out of control check out the following passage here

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we go......[mumbling]

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...all right how would you change the below underlined portion of the passage

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if at all..impacting and here are the potential answers.....We have an impacted

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molar it's impacting our ability to not make this face and mentally it's not our [Girl making funny face with toothache]

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prettiest face but the dentist can't see us until next Tuesday... Alright we're not in

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teething.. how is this passage using the word impacting and let's take a look [Girl at a densist]

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...A few days later she had gone back to it and in the course of those [Statue with water pouring out of its mouth]

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few days the names of TJ Joe and Rick had been etched into the panel impacting

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one of the human figures option A) seems to think there's nothing to see here...

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Impacting is a vague term and doesn't [man etching names into stone]

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quite describe what happened when the names were etched onto the panel yeah

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sure it was technically impacted but so is the front door of your house when you

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open it or your self control when you decide to do the finish the entire pint

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of ice cream it basically just means that the panel was affected which [Girl with a full tub of ice cream]

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doesn't tell us much so we're on the lookout for something better how about

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C) making an impact on... Well way to take a word we already discounted and turn

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into four words, no if impact was the right choice and the overly wordy

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version of the same thing isn't going to save the day either so we'll nix C)... D)

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crashing that's like they're not even trying to fool us with this one crashing [Person etching into a panel and person playing with a toy car]

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one of the human figures hmm no doesn't even make sense in some cases it might

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work as a viable replacement for impacting but here you probably do

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better just drawing a random word out of a hat so it's definitely not D) ....So B)

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it is marring which means disfiguring or defacing is a much better choice here it [marring word definition]

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gets across the idea that the vandals took a perfectly pristine piece of rock [Car parks next to a rock]

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art and decided it could be improved upon leaving their own personal mark of

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course ever since we got this impacted molar marring is also what it sounds [Girl with an impacted molar]

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like any time we try to say this word... yeah we will just ask our dentist to take

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them all out...

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