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

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use your brought to you by summer vacations Hopefully your

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a c works All right we're skimming quickly because well

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we probably read this eighteen times Now we're just done

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skimming the skim skim skim along with you and then

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stop The narrator uses the phrase the height of romantic

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felicity in the second sense of the paragraph one right

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there to refer to what and hear the potential answers

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manicure ability All right let's get some vocab straight before

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we jump into this one First the word felicity means

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deliriously happy which is also how a certain subset of

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the population feels while secretly binging watching the show felicity

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on netflix but that's a separate issue So now that

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we know what felicity means we might be tempted to

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go with option d The narrator does go on and

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on about how great the houses but saying that it's

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everything she hoped for a bit of a stretch i

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often see misses the mark too Sure the narrator thinks

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the house is cool but she doesn't specifically praise her

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husband's house hunting abilities Plus if you were so great

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at it Well we didn't really see an animal on

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house hunters by now right Not so much All right

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a little more Vocab knowledge helps us to eliminate choice

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b is true that the narrator uses the word romantic

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but she means that a little differently than we might

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immediately think Usually when we hear this word it's referring

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to something related to love and romance like a candlelit

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dinner walk on the beach or tax rebate people are

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weird in just trust us we are The thing is

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is that the narrator doesn't say anything about being all

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that in love with her husband In fact he's such

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a jerk to her there's a pretty good chance that

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relationship is on the rocks make that a really good

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change Well there's always matched that we can always use

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the word romantic when we're talking about something that's highly

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idealized or something that's similar in style to the artistic

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movement romanticism Knowing this leads us directly to the correct

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answer option A romanticism is a genre that among other

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things doesn't mind getting fantastical and or horrific so this

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connects with the idea of the house being haunted Basically

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the narrator is saying that she'll be deliriously happy if

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the house is in fact haunted but she knows it's

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too much for this lady has obviously never seen a

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horror movie That's actually scary let's See how she feels 00:02:35.61 --> [endTime] after watching the ring Yeah

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