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In this CAHSEE passage drill, figure out the best meaning of the word mellow. CAHSEE: Passage Drill 12, Problem 4

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Hurry and here's your shmoop to use your brought to

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you by the mellow ground after some therapy It's Not

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so uptight Check out the following passage Read this line

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from the poem What All right Which of the following

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is the best way to express the meaning of the

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word mellow in this sense And hear the potential answers

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Most of us know that mello described something pleasantly smooth

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like frozen yogurt or when somebody's general mood is calm

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and easy going whenever we get cranky A little frozen

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yogurt always mellows us out unless it comes from one

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of those places like where the toppings get to experimental

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jalopy nose on yogurt like seriously when robert frost describes

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the ground is mellow he's using the word in a

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slightly different way than we normally do for this question

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we have to use context to figure out what he

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needs but let's begin by crossing off choi say there's

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nothing in the poem that suggests the speaker is farming

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on public land this is a good thing the city

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gets pretty peeved whenever people start plowing in the park

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The poem also doesn't say anything about the farm being

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unhealthy or sloppy so we can definitely next choice is

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c and d this farmer might not mind taking a

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break to talk to a friend but there's no reason

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to believe his farm isn't well tended and clean We're

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opting for choice b on this one word mellow can

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also be used to describe earth that soft rich and

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blow me We challenge you to find an organic way

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of working the word lovie into a casual conversation Try

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it and see if your friends notice But be really 00:01:39.748 --> [endTime] cool loamy

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