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ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 2.2 Vocabulary-In-Context. The word "venerable" most nearly means...what?


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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by foliage What did the distrusting plants

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say to its friend your shady man One mild winter

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day as he walked along the streets toward the academy

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which stood upon a small eminence surrounded by native growth

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some venerable in its appearance others young and prosperous all

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seemed inviting and seem to be the very place for

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learning as well as for genius to spend its research

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beneath its spreading shades All right the word venerable most

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nearly means what and hear the potential answers Nothing says

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learning like the ivy draped walls of universities on these

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coast of america In this past there are multiple plans

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hanging on the walls some of which are described as

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venerable archeo included to finding this word is that these

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venerable plans are contrasted with young and prosperous ones So

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which one of your answer choices is in contrast with

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young and prosperous Well towering doesn't really work There are

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plenty of young things that are tall case in point

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Lebron james and pleasant isn't the opposite of young either

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no matter what crazy grandpa jasper might say right now

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Decayed does contrast with prosperous but the text offers us

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another bit of context and all of the plants seemed

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inviting unless one's really into zombies D k doesn't equate

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teo in fighting but one word that does contrast with

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young is aged Dictionary Definition of venerable is commanding respect

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because of great age or impressive dignity So in this

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case the best answer is b the word venerable most

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nearly means aged See aren't academics fund Now We just

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need to buy a tweed jacket with elbow patches and 00:01:51.493 --> [endTime] well we'd be all set here

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