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To Shmoop or not to Shmoop, that is... not this question....

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Which word could fill in the blank so that the sentence below makes sense?

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The illustration depicting a computer in the middle of a prehistoric jungle was a visual

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representation of blank, existing outside of its own time.

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And here are the potential answers...

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This list of "ism's" isn't as intimidating as it might seem at first...

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...since the sentence tells us that the missing word means "existing outside of its own time."

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We can feed the word "pragmatism" to the raptors, since it means the practice of approaching

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things in a practical way.

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"Monotheism" means the worship of one god, so it's raptor-meat, too.

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"Imperialism" is when one nation dominates another economically, politically, or both.

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(E) doesn't fit either, because "Jingoism" refers to extremes nationalism coupled with

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a belligerent foreign policy.

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Basically, it's when one country thinks it's all that and then some.

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"Anachronism" describes something that exists outside of its own time...

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...which is exactly what we're on the hunt for.

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The root word chron means time, so there was an extra hint buried in there.

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Looks like choice (C) is the only one to survive the bloodbath.

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Which is good because our raptors were getting full anyway.

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