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ASVAB Word Knowledge 4.1 Word Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes. Which of these words is closest in meaning to nullify?
ASVAB Word Knowledge 4.1 Word Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes. Which of these words is closest in meaning to nullify?
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[ musical flourish ]
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Which of these words is closest in meaning to nullify?
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And here are the potential answers.
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[ mumbles ]
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All right. Well, the word "nullify"
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means to terminate or cancel something,
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like when you nullify one of those accidental
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Vegas marriages. [ chuckles ] It's not a good thing.
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All right, well, let's start wtih A - affirm,
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which means to maintain something as true.
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Well, that couldn't be more wrong.
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Then there's C - humanize,
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which means to refine or make more human.
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Like, think about Frankenstein.
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Villains are often said to be humanized
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when you can understand their motives,
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but that doesn't cancel out whatever wrong they did in the first place.
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Take a look at B - invalidate
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and D - evaporate.
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Well, evaporate can mean to disappear or vanish,
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which seems pretty close here, but the word
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invalidate literally means
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to make something invalid.
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Now that's the same thing as nullify.
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So the correct answer here is B - invalidate.
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The favorite insult of scientists everywhere.
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[ snorting laugh ]
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