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CAHSEE 11.3 Passage Drill. Which of the following is the best way to express the meaning of the word complimentary in this sentence?

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Larry and here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by listening booze don't tell the secret inside one if

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you don't want it to get around lap tonight we're

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skimming second way in your store location really stink That's

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right It wasn't open them and you get back in

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that way All right Read this excerpt from the selection

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right here All music available and listening both is available

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for immediate purchase with a complimentary mp three version sent

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to the customers Email right there Which of the following

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is the best way to express the meaning of the

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word complimentary in this sentence And hear the angelus three

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even if the definition of complimentary has been stolen from

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our brains by what must be a burger with very

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odd case Well we can still answer this question without

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breaking a sweat Let's begin by eliminating option d everyone

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it's muff doesn't have an mba from stanford but we're

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pretty sure that making people go all the way to

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the store to buy expensive mp three's is an awful

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business model Even the guys that modern music and mayhem

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no this would be flushing their store down the drain

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So next we'll get rid of choice b the word

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better just doesn't make sense in the context of the

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sense what would make an mp three version better than

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the one customers here in the listening booth Besides the

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fact listeners wouldn't have tto hang out in the store

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with overly friendly sales people here don't know that this

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question has been smooth sailing so far but choi see

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takes it into rough waters Complimentary can actually mean flattering

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So this one might be tempting However the sentence doesn't

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work if we substitute the word flattering for complimentary Check

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it all music available in the listening boat is available

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for immediate purchase with a flattering mp three version How

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exactly with the mp three version Shin bi flattering would

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it say nice things about us is we listen Oh

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nice loads that well as much as we like compliments

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This would probably mess up the song unless it's one

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of sides songs then really anything is making better Oh

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joyce is the best answer when a business gives something

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complimentary to a customer that something is free like when

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we stay in hotels and snag all the little shampoos

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In case we run out of our usual shampoo and

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have a big date or something yeah those air complimentary 00:02:30.078 --> [endTime] And hey it could happen point

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