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greetings Shmoopers although Ethel does not leave her link of cheese as we

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thought Blanc level I guess agree on things you get help before it's too late

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all right well your first reaction might be what the and we bet you can complete

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that Blanc easily but luckily for you and everyone in earshot it doesn't [people leaving computers]

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matter if you don't know the meanings of those fancy words enter context clues

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you know them you love them there are little hints in the text that help you

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define a difficult word or concept so in this question we have a couple of hints

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check out the very first word although the word although tells us that Ethel is

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him denial the middle of Egypt of her cheese addiction but that our speaker [satellite photo of the Nile]

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wants her to seek help which is unbelievable all right if we fill out [girl with cheese in mouth]

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our blanks using that knowledge before we even look at the answer choices well

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we might get something like this we can see we'll have to tweak the first one

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here a bit none of those words mean love as far as we know but it looks like

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we're onto something with the second we can knock out invigorating right away

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since it has a positive connotation Ethel might be feeling great after her [girl gobbling cheese]

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fifth wheel of camembert but the second blank is the speaker's point of view

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since we know the speaker is concerned while we know we need a word with a

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negative connotation malignant would certainly fit the whole negative [conference room full of people]

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connotation thing but it's a little too intense for Ethel's problem after all FL

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is just eating cheese she's not murdering people and mixing their body

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parts into cheese that would be pretty malignant behavior right so that leaves [girl grating a human leg]

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portentous and pernicious and we know the root word port means carry like we

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port our books to school and if we don't know that then it's never too late to do

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some last-minute root word studying unless you're watching this video during

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the GRE that'd be cool so portentous must mean something like oh we don't

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know carrying a warning yeah just a guess

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well that doesn't work with our blank here so even though we have no freaking

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idea what pernicious means though we're pretty sure it doesn't refer to an

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allocation of one unit of Nicias based on context and elimination well we know

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that's our best bet by the way pernicious actually means have

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a harmful effect especially in a gradual way well Ethel might not think her

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cheese habit has reached a harmful level you can ask her roommate you know [girl shows off statue of liberty made of cheese]

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because she does have that lactose intolerance thing our speaker sure does

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honestly this beaker needs to get a life and leave Ethel probe alone all right

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back to blank one we know Ethel's eating a ton of cheese so while she may be

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depleting the world's cheese supply this isn't the answer we're looking for

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mastication that's mastication mind out of the gutter people it's just a fancy

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word for chew at the rate Ethel's going well who knows if she's even chewing it [girl eats cheese without chewing]

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though seems like she might be I don't know inhaling it can you inhale

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cheese inhalation doesn't quite work here Ethel's not just huffing cheese

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straight from the can or well maybe she is who knows all right know what eff is

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doing is consuming cheese or maybe the cheese is consuming her mind body and

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soul either way consumption is the best word here and you know what cheese is

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delicious and life is short you do you Ethel and you do you [girl marries statue of liberty made of cheese]

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