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CAHSEE 10.2 Passage Drill. Which of the following is the best way to express the meaning of the word "invaluable" in this sentence?
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- 00:00
Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
- 00:05
by france Leave the gas on in a french kitchen
- 00:08
and you get linoleum blown apart Check out the following
- 00:13
passage Okay read this excerpt from the selection A fellow
- 00:49
student reports her trip to france with a french language
Full Transcript
- 00:52
club was invaluable to her becoming fluent in the language
- 00:57
Which of the following is the best way to express
- 00:59
the meaning of the word invaluable in this sentence And
- 01:03
hear the potential answers Our didn't valuable means that something
- 01:08
or someone is so important that it's hard to even
- 01:10
put a value on it like if somebody has a
- 01:12
personal assistant who they can't get along without you know
- 01:15
like robin the bat man our peanut butter to jelly
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clearly jelly is my assistant joy say has it all
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wrong if something is causing a problem it's not in
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any way valuable and it doesn't even come close to
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being invaluable same thing goes for option b invaluable things
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don't stand in our way They help us get where
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we're going We thought that foldable scooter we bought would
- 01:37
be invaluable But then we just felt silly riding choice
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d is totally wrong if something is invaluable It's super
- 01:43
important not important Much like our morning coffee it's something
- 01:47
we can't do without option c is the only answer
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that gets it The author is saying that it's very
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useful to spend time in a foreign country while you're
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learning its language When we were learning pig latin we
- 01:57
went to swine land and well we went hog wild
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at day Okay j as way in east bay Okay
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clearly jelly is my assistant
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