SAT Reading Drill 1.6 Interpreting words and phrases in context
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What does "frittered away" mean in this context? Wasted. Wasted by the way. Thoreau claims we fritter away our lives praying to modern complex distractions.
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her life to a delicious golden-brown a little sugar on the rose advocating for [woman in field]
the simple life in this paragraph and the simple life is all about ridding
oneself of modern distractions so as not to waste it reading the catechol to the [girls texting in a row]
catechol on page 472 of the mortgage contract all right well a person's
attention might be deflected B by the details of modern life but his or her
life would continue on unfazed - despite the small stuff Thoros not saying that [fritters on a window]
obsessing over the details of modern life makes one's life any shorter
although too many fritters that might in fact on your lighter there's over just [bear and a man]
moving on finally thorough found modern life corrupting to his character but the
addition of a way in the sentence amines this choice doesn't quite fit so that's [bear smelling fritters]
it we're moving on we're frittering