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PSAT 1.1 Reading Diagnostic. The main purpose of the first two paragraphs is to...what?
PSAT 2.2 Reading Diagnostic. What is the main rhetorical effect of this phrase in the second paragraph?
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PSAT 2.3 Reading Diagnostic. As used in the passage, "belaboring" most nearly means...what?
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
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jour brought to you by the quest for peace which
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usually gets shelved in favor of the quest for pizza
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You're gonna pass you know that world sam leaves i'm
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retaining a name of an ancient power brings about like
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eight times now Both sides seek beach had failure in
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battle Think possibility my fellow americans Ok And we're done
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as used in the passage Be laboring paragraph six most
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nearly means what And your potential Answer bells wedding sailings
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at draining ridicule be laboring Is that one of flying
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insect he's giving birth Alright so kennedy probably wasn't telling
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america about the birds and the bees on national television
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That's usually the secretary of state's job We're looking at
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you every day Okay then let's take a look at
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the sentence in question and see if we can get
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a handle on what this word means Let both sides
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explore what problems unite us instead of the laboring Those
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problems which divide us got it So it sounds like
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he's saying we should work on finding a common ground
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while at the same time making an effort not to
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Harp on any of the bad stuff which of our
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answer choices goes along with that idea Is it be
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a sailing following us sail something you attack it Enemy
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seems to be talking more about how we should discuss
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our approach or various problems not necessarily how we should
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wrestle in the ground or spray them in the face
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with mace sales a bit violent but we're going to
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bypass them next up see exaggerating Well kennedy isn't suggesting
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that we've exaggerated any of our problems The fact is
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that these are really difficult problems There's no need to
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exaggerate a nuclear war is serious when the downside to
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a situation is getting blown to kingdom come you don't
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really need to embellish let's cross off c option d
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is ridiculing that work We're not sure how exactly you
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ridicule a problem What would you do Make a short
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joke make fun of it for its poor fashions Since
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now ridiculing is generally reserved for people rather than something
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abstract like a problem so we'll get rid of option
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d which probably relies on its mother to get dressed
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in the morning Our answer here is a perpetuating when
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you perpetuate something you keep it going Kennedy is imploring
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us not to focus on the stuff We can't do
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anything about it because it won't do us any good
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to propagate our frustration and discontent Also a good rule
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when it comes to contemplating one's own mortality Bad news
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for you but well we're all gonna die someday That
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potion you bought from the old woman in the woods
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it's only going to make your hair and teeth fall 00:02:34.05 --> [endTime] out Sorry
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