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ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 1.2 Vocabulary-In-Context. In this passage, the word "illustrious" most nearly means...what?
ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 1.3 Vocabulary-In-Context. The word "preposterous" most nearly means what?
ASVAB Word Knowledge 1.2 Vocab List. Which word is closest in meaning to tangible?
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In this question, figure out if the vocab word highlighted is used properly. ASVAB Word Knowledge: Vocab List Drill 1, Problem 4
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
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jour brought to you by materialism convincing you to buy
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new versions of things You already have the market Because
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it rained on the day of the event We were
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left with a plethora of unsold tickets And here the
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potential answers placing your city's fine growth All right well
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when you have a plethora of something you have too
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much of it A fertile family might have a plethora
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of kids Yeah like that Let's start with a scarcity
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A scarcity is when there's not enough of something Now
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if you have a plethora of kids you'll probably have
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a scarcity of money time in basic happiness But too
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much and not enough are complete opposites so we can
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cross scarcity off the list Next up is b supply
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Well a supply is a collection of something like school
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supplies A stash of stuff you need to get through
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the academic year after wait your teacher only thinks you're
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going to use a supplies just amount of something It
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doesn't indicate that there's too much While plethora it does
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so Option b won't do Then there's see growth while
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a growth is a development from less tome or or
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from worse toe better For example if you went from
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hating yourself toe loving yourself that's personal growth you might
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have a plethora of something due to growth but they're
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not quite the same thing And finally there's the excess
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when there's an excess of something there's too much of
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it If you went from hating yourself taking five hundred
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selfies a day you might have an excuse or a
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plethora of self love If taking a selfie means you
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have self love and not an issue with your father
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but that's a separate issue we won't go into right
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here So the correct answer is d access and remember
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consider everything in moderation even if that means you have 00:01:53.571 --> [endTime] a plethora of moderation Yeah zen koan things
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