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PSAT 3.5 Reading Diagnostic. As it is used in the second-to-last paragraph, "nascent" most closely means...what?

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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop dues

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You are brought to you by diners Finally a place

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that doesn't judge you for eating pancakes at two in

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the morning Check out this passage in what we've been

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there Double waffle things with maple syrup A letter mother

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All right we're skimming We don't skimming All right sharp

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one You are too much of other crap in here

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Yeah yeah fast food delivery restaurants restaurants century And we're

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done alright So here we go as it is used

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in the second the last paragraph nations most closely means

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what And here the potential answers for miserly blood No

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Well welcome to another exciting edition of know your words

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Unfortunately you can't win a car or twenty five grand

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in cash here All you get is a pat on

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the head and the satisfaction of a question correctly answered

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and maybe a smiling through too If you're lucky at

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least those air all tax free Okay so nation let's

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take a look at the word in context and see

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if we can put our finger on it And yeah

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some people pronounced it national but we like nations better

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Restaurant meals have grown in size since the days of

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the nation's diner Well what picture is this line painting

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Well there were these diners back in the day and

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they were cute acquaintance all but they've given away too

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much larger establishments that probably aren't so cute happens to

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the best of us We don't see either cute or

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quaint as answered choices so we'll have to keep digging

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if something is formless it's without form shocking we know

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early diners might have been smaller but it's not like

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they didn't have a wall technology a year ago Knuckles

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she brought all that seth wall no pretty sure the

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original diners weren't formless and that eliminates option a what

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about blossoming on that sort of make sense since we

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know that restaurants have gotten bigger over time But the

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point of the sentence is basically to say that restaurants

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is the whole of blossom size wise over the years

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that wouldn't make sense to refer to the first diners

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themselves is blossoming even if they did have some mighty

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impressive floral centerpieces doing cross off st d unsuccessful Hardly

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They might have been smaller than today's eateries but it's

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because they were successful from the start that they kept

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growing If you're not familiar with big business it doesn't

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usually go this thing's a bust let's build one hundred

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more of them so it ain't got a bb early

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Yeah it's Just referring to those first diners is prototype

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for what restaurants would eventually become They were like cabs

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just getting their legs under them for the first time

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learning how to walk before they became veal Whereas today

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they walk with strength and confidence in the slaughterhouse They're

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often large and successful and they definitely have cabs on

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the menu there that veal don't think about how cute 00:02:49.53 --> [endTime] they are S a mint jelly

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