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Another shmoop du jour for you... Need to take another look at the passage?

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No worries; just hit pause and giver 'er a skim...

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In line 47, "despondency" most nearly means...what?

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Here are the potential answers...

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From the context of the passage... not to mention the magic conjunction "and"...

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...we know that "despondency" relates to suicide somehow.

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Sounds like this one is bound to be an upper... The root word "anonymous" in "anonymity"

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reminds us that the word relates to being unknown.

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The passage makes it clear that the famous Kurt Cobain had the opposite problem, so (E)

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is off our list.

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"Friendliness" is nice and all...

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But it doesn't really equate with suicide, therefore (D) is wrong as well.

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Sometimes peoples considering suicide can be really quiet, and sometimes they can be

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really intense... But (C), "hopelessness," tends be universally

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tied with suicidal thoughts, making it the best answer.

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