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CAHSEE 8.3 Passage Drill. The words "pensively", "analyze", and "formulate" in Paragraph 4 suggest a feeling of...what?

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

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by the constellations fact when you connect all the constellations

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you get the face of nick jonas Still he'll have

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that when no one cares anymore Oh yeah Well pretty

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much there now nick All right Humans Consolation throughout history

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Blah blah night Traveling sky from him We read this

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like eighty seven times already Stories it's gonna be okay

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The words pensively analyze and formulate in paragraph four suggest

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a feeling of what And here the potential answers difficult

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greenies We have to be careful of the word intensively

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here it's waiting to cause trouble like a forgotten land

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mine in a flowery meadow The word pensively can be

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used to describe somebody who's lost in dreamy thought which

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might make us think choice b is the right answer

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but the words analyze and formulate don't sound very dreamy

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though so we're going to take be out of the

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running The word pensively might also lead us astray with

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choice Dee that's it the word pensively is not invited

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to our next party again hear the words analyze in

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formulate negate pensively thiss time by sending distinctly un magical

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they're like the muggles of the vocab world All right

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option isn't specific to any of the words in question

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You can bet our ancestors were facing many difficult challenges

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like famine disease and complete lack of self service But

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we're sure there's a better answer here Like oh say

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answer c we hear the words pensively analyzed and formulate

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and we imagine one of those montages in a movie

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where thoughtfully scientists get all science e and solve a

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problem with you know science If only all the world's 00:01:41.848 --> [endTime] problems could be solved with them on no Oh

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