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ELA Drills, Intermediate: Meanings 1. Choose the words that would give the sentence an "insecure" or a "confident" tone.
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Thank you we sneak and here's your shmoop du jour
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brought to you by security blankets Unfortunately they don't do
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as good a job of protecting your home as their
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name suggests Choose the words that would give the sense
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and insecure or a confident tone Every time i have
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to talk in front of the class i immediately feel
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what And here a potential answer a little point Cool
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Okay so we have four words and we want to
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know which ones would read as insecure and which would
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read as confident well let's think about how you carry
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yourself when you're confident your heads held high walk with
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a proud strut unless you're dragging your security blanket when
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we're confident we always demonstrate poised and we behave in
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a cool manner if we were troubled or uncertain in
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front of our class well that would show wouldn't it
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certainly wouldn't smack of confidence no matter what type of
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fancy tie you were wearing that day Come on be
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real so yeah troubled in uncertain are our insecure words
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while poison kool are are confident words bacon which we
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feel confident those burglars won't be back to mess with
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Us again On after they met up with our guard 00:01:09.306 --> [endTime] dog What Mmm Yummy
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