ShmoopTube

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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by books.

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Think of them like lots of text messages stapled together.

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All right, yeah, they're cool.

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Check out the following sentence.

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The book received many accolades for its intimate look

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at border warfare.

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All right, the word accolades

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most nearly means... what?

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[ mumbles ]

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Looks like this book closely examined border warfare

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and people took notice. Let's begin at the top.

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A - criticisms.

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Hmm. They're judgments based on something's merit,

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like on The Voice or American Idol. Yeah, like that.

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A book that looked closely at war could be criticized,

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but that's not the correct definition here.

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And don't confuse accolades with acolytes.

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Those are followers of an ideology.

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You know, like a devil worshipper... something like that.

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So we're gonna go ahead and eliminate a similar word, C - adherents.

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And D - edits are changes

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or revisions. Maybe our government would

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edit anything that looked too closely at war,

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but that doesn't fit the context here.

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So we're left with option B - honors.

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Accolades are praises and honors, as in

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people liked the book because it looked closely at a difficult subject.

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So B is the correct answer.

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Man, thanks to the ASVAB, we'll be earning accolades

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for the quality of vocab we use in our text messages.

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LOL, baby.

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