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Texas EOC English 1: 3.1 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres 232 Views


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Pay close attention and see if you can define "meticulously."


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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke du

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jour brought to you by braces the all up in

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your mouth kind of metal reinforcement All right check the

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following passage you mentioned a hotel brochure often beaumont In

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the second sentence meticulously means what All right well if

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we don't already know the definition of meticulously then this

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one might be tough Several of these answer options would

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make sense in the context of the sentence All right

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well lucky for us we do know that meticulously describes

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when a person does something carefully with a lot of

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attention to detail We could say we spent last night

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meticulously assembling a model of the starship enterprise She's really

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kind of cool Actually we could say that but we

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won't If we want to go on any dates Since

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we know the meaning of the word we can fly

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through these at work speed All right Well next option

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d even though it makes sense in context a brochure

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might very well bragged that the hotel is beautifully restored

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However not everything that's done meticulously is beautiful Like what

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if a guy meticulously took care of his collection of

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pickled pigs feet You know if each his own right

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answer c is wrong too We're sure that the restoration

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of this victorian era hotel was ridiculously expensive but expense

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doesn't have anything to do with being meticulous We could

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meticulously catalogue our belly button lint And well that would

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be totally free Choice is a definite no Doing Something

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meticulously does not require metal reinforcement No if we wanted

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to make our model of the enterprise more ready while

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some metal reinforcement would be a good place to start

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the correct answer is b like we said before meticulously

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means with great attention to detail or carefully so b

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is the only answer that fitz excuse us while we

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get meticulous with that belly button What that wait t 00:02:15.81 --> [endTime] m i

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