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CAHSEE 10.2 Passage Drill. Which of the following is the best way to express the meaning of the word "invaluable" in this sentence?

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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by france Leave the gas on in a french kitchen

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and you get linoleum blown apart Check out the following

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passage Okay read this excerpt from the selection A fellow

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student reports her trip to france with a french language

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club was invaluable to her becoming fluent in the language

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Which of the following is the best way to express

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the meaning of the word invaluable in this sentence And

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hear the potential answers Our didn't valuable means that something

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or someone is so important that it's hard to even

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put a value on it like if somebody has a

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personal assistant who they can't get along without you know

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like robin the bat man our peanut butter to jelly

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clearly jelly is my assistant joy say has it all

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wrong if something is causing a problem it's not in

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any way valuable and it doesn't even come close to

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being invaluable same thing goes for option b invaluable things

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don't stand in our way They help us get where

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we're going We thought that foldable scooter we bought would

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be invaluable But then we just felt silly riding choice

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d is totally wrong if something is invaluable It's super

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important not important Much like our morning coffee it's something

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we can't do without option c is the only answer

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that gets it The author is saying that it's very

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useful to spend time in a foreign country while you're

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learning its language When we were learning pig latin we

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went to swine land and well we went hog wild

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at day Okay j as way in east bay Okay

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clearly jelly is my assistant

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