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ELA Drills, Advanced: Word Meanings 2
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke du
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jour brought to you by accord nous ark ark organist
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awkwardness you there we go that was awkward or check
- 00:13
out the sins Edward was happy being a loner so
- 00:16
his aloof nature didn't come as a surprise to anyone
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- 00:19
at the dance that night In this sentence the word
- 00:21
aloof means what and hear the potential answer about unsociable
- 00:25
and intense children some aloof is that a singular version
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of many lose Probably not if we will lose running
- 00:35
while they were sure we'd have heard about it by
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now Okay so if someone has an aloof nature that
- 00:40
means they're what we're told that edward is happy being
- 00:43
a loner In other words he doesn't need to hang
- 00:45
out with other people in order to have a good
- 00:47
time Does that make him be awkward No just because
- 00:51
you're first solitary to playing cards with friends doesn't mean
- 00:54
you're necessarily awkward Is he see intense Well he might
- 00:58
be but there's no evidence in the sentence that says
- 01:01
it there's nothing inherently intense about being a loner unless
- 01:04
you go home and stare at yourself intensely in the
- 01:06
mirror every night That's creepy Stop doing that All right
- 01:09
what about d intelligent While depending on his options edward
- 01:13
could be intelligent for wanting to spend the majority of
- 01:15
his time with the number one but intelligence is not
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a requirement of being a loner The correct answer here
- 01:21
is a unsociable sociable People are always hanging out with
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their friends and are able to insert themselves into public
- 01:27
gatherings or events with ease Unsociable people you know so
- 01:32
much so it is don't feel too bad for edward
- 01:35
though we hear that every saturday he gets together with
- 01:38
a bunch of loose for a game of tag football 00:01:40.999 --> [endTime] and that could just be a rumor
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