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ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 4.4 Vocabulary-In-Context. The word "ostensibly" most nearly means...what?

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brought to you by questionable occupations of territory Like when

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you're little bro Double our patients of your room Yeah

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but able occupations of rope borrows that we're having this

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grant you superintendent and we're done reading we down We're

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now in britannia Poor done with word ostensibly most nearly

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means what And here the room well and they are

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checking the following paragraph Well you're usually finding water in

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the desert is a bad start checking the following paragraph

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desert So is that the war enormous impact on egypt's

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place in the world But but it also let the

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suez canal occupation So yeah i guess it's still kind

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of bad The sewers and britain's motivations weren't clear Really

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shocked that a point of reference egypt's nominal british shocking

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on ly allegiance to plot our site like many pop

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stars nominal authorship of their own music So how should

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we interpret Ostensibly in context Well improbably doesn't make sense

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here Britain wasn't improbably protecting their investments People people usually

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protect the things they pay for investment They weren't missing

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anything Their investments either and it's not like taking over

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The country was a mistake and try not to can

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and it's not sensibly with ostentatiously ostentatious means designed to

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impress or attract notice on while the brits are hate

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o e and many regard not here what's important is

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that britain was cleaning their code of issues means just

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don't use on that critical investments Even if that was

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true so answer seal Supposedly it was arrest claiming their

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festival occupation was a star about was when it's signing

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the irritation means designed to him I'm not here just 00:01:53.767 --> [endTime] to serve us Coffee You disgust me

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