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ASVAB Word Knowledge 4.5 Word Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes 204 Views


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ASVAB Word Knowledge 4.5 Word Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes. Which of these words is closest in meaning to blatant?


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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by the great plains the vanilla

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ice cream of american landscapes Which of these words is

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closest and meaning to blatant and hear the potential answers

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But the word blatant means offensively loud or brazen like

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when you blatantly disregard your cure Few well let's start

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with a dormant which is a synonym for latent meaning

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inactive Well sure it sounds blatant but they're pretty different

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meaning let's Take a look at be ugly Well sometimes

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a blatant can have a negative connotation like when you

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make a blatant error on a test but ugly usually

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refers to a physical attributes This one doesn't seem right

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either Then there's d withdrawn which means quiet or shy

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like someone who prefers books over people panel feels like

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the opposite of what we're looking for here anyway That

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leaves us with c obvious which can mean easily seen

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or lacking in subtlety though it's a synonym for blatant

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the correct answer is c obvious Sometimes the answer is 00:01:01.203 --> [endTime] well right in front of you yeah

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