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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by [ blubbers] confusion.

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Confusion say we just slaughtered his name.

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Which of these words is closest in meaning to incoherent?

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And here are the potential answers.

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All right. Uh, well, it'll be awfully helpful if we know what

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"coherent" means for starters.

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Basically, it means "logical" or "making sense."

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But what does prefix "in" mean?

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Well, sometimes it means to go in a certain direction, like "inland."

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But then there are words like "inflexible" and "insufficient"

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and "insane." So "in" usually means "not."

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And if something is "incoherent," it's

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not coherent or not making sense.

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Hopefully that makes sense.

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So let's look at the answers. A - lucid.

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Well, lucid means clear or easy to understand,

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which is the exact opposite of what we're looking for.

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D - resistant. Well, resistant means not wanting to do something.

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Yeah. [ chuckles ] C - sleepy.

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You might not make very much sense when you're tired, but

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this one feels kind of random.

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So try B - disjointed. Mm.

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Well, here we can guess that

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"join" means to come together, and the prefix

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"dis" (in words like "dislike and "disappear")

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"dis" means not.

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So the correct answer is B - disjointed,

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which means not really following a clear pattern.

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Just like Taylor Swift's dating history.

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Yeah? Remember her? Really tall. Blonde.

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