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Thank you And here's your shmoop du jour brought to

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you by master thomas with a name like master one

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guy probably is kind of a jerk All right turn

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the following passage from life of frederick douglass and master

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six dollars you felt with a pretty honorable robert thirty

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eight stratagem exhorted Okay we're done well Read the following

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sentence from paragraph two right here right here This one

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He exhorted me to content myself and be obedient Uh

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which of the following is the best synonym for the

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word exhorted All right we'll hear the potential answers All

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right warned er general Okay Don't know the meaning of

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the word exhort toe Join the club We're not context

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clues or there to guide the way d is probably

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the easiest choice to eliminate So we'll just start there

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Okay Sometimes it's alright to do the easy things first

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Anyway this one's not hard to next because promised doesn't

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fit in the sentence All we'd have to do is

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substitute promised for exhorted and it's Pretty obvious Well he

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promised me to content myself and be obedient Uh he

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promised me what What kind of sense does that make

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None all right option c doesn't work either It might

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fit in the context of the sentence but it doesn't

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fit in the context of the passage as a whole

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Master thomas might be a slave owner but douglas never

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says anything about him Raising his voice for say is

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a little trickier to eliminate than the previous two options

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warned works in the context of the sentence and the

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passage let's see what the other option is before we

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decide to nix it here So uh be suggests urged

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which also works tough one but ultimately be is the

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best answer or the better answer among these two alright

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warned is a stronger word than urged since it has

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the connotation that master thomas threatened douglas master thomas isn't

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exactly the nicest guy in the world right But for

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the most part he's trying to rationalize with this slave

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instead of threatening douglas with torture or something so urged

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is a safer bet Actually it's a super safe bed

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since we happen to know that to exhort means ready

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to encourage strongly or to urge someone to do something

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Yeah we could have just said that at the beginning

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But then we wouldn't have gotten to spend all this 00:02:25.303 --> [endTime] quality time with master tea

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