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Choose the best alternative to the text below.
a lot of tough struggling and fighting


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Okay Spyros were on four of twelve here of james

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meredith and we're going to zoom right in here to

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ah lot of tough struggling and fighting It's in paragraph

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one right there and we're just skimming through it Here

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right in the room are from king little birmingham jail

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Jamuna implant diesel right hero Then we certainly face racial

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discrimination by the supreme court on racial segregation in schools

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to be unconstitutional In practice most schools in the south

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were still segregated It would require a lot of off

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struggling and fighting But meredith not only was admitted to

00:37

ole miss university he also eventually obtained a law degree

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from columbia university You know the one in new york

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not and your bogus talk Yeah Okay so let's see

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There's clearly something wrong here This is not smooth Sometimes

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mohr isn't necessarily better Even in america has written the

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sentence tries to cram ian Too many words if it

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helps think of worthiness as a banana cream pie situation

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One or two slices equals magical deliciousness Six pie slices

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and counting equals groll us out of the room and

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never show us a banana again They've lost appeal All

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right Well ambiguous fluffy words like very And some usually

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indicate unnecessary word deena So get rid of the similarly

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two words that are close in meaning in the same

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sentence Struggling and fighting not only creates wording us it

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creates redundancy saying the same thing over and over and

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over again You can't do that Get rid of b

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We're looking for the answer choice that elevates the tone

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while staying appropriately stingy with the words that choice is

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a hard fought battle which unsurprisingly happens to be the

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shortest one on the list So it would read like

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this It would require a hard fought battle But meredith

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not only was admitted told miss yada yada yada So

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that's it It's c We're done And we're done struggling 00:02:03.97 --> [endTime] there Yeah Ouch

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