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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by happy faces.. why

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are they always so happy where's the rest of their body hmm while reading a [Happy face at the front of a class]

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story you notice the author compares the word jubilant to the similar word happy

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what type of context clue is the author giving you? All right here are the examples

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[mumbling] alright so we've got two words that mean roughly

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the same thing jubilant and happy it'd be kind of weird if we refer to one of [person holding a phone with a happy face message]

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these things is a jubilant face though wouldn't it I guess that would make this [person holding his face in his hands]

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a melancholy face hmm anyway which of our answer choices accurately describes

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this comparison is it A an example well because they mean the same thing one

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isn't really an example of the other braininess and intelligence are the same

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thing you wouldn't say braininess as an example of intelligence though would you? [Mom with her two daughters]

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yeah probably not, braininess might be like demonstrating someone could do calculus

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in third grade all right get rid of A.. what about D a definition; definitions

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are usually a little more descriptive than simply offering a single word like [Book opens and definition: words appears on the first page]

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if you're trying to define happy and you say jubilant that's not going to be much

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help to someone who doesn't know what jubilant means is it though this one [Sad face with a D grade on it's essay]

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earns a frowny face and we define happiness is like what happens when you

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get that triple ice cream.. we're left with just two choices synonym and [Man in a book joyous at receiving a triple ice-cream]

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antonym. An antonym is a word that means the opposite of another but synonym is a

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word that means roughly the same thing as another word right that's the one

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we're looking for answer B is our guy well that isn't enough turn that frown [Frowning face turns upside down]

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upside down well we just don't know what to do

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