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Hurry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by oil pulling not to be confused with oil wrestling

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The national sport of turkey it's Not even a joke

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Okay read the following sentence from the passage The oil

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allegedly pulls toxins out of your system right The author

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uses the word allegedly to suggest that oil pulling what

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And here the potential answers No Well when we don't

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know the definition of a word we have to rely

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on context clues Luckily for us context clues or generally

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reliable they're never late for a meeting And while they

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always refill the britta because how annoying is it when

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the britta is sitting there empty in the fridge Really

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hard context tells us that choice a is nowhere near

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right there no hints in the passage that oil pulling

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is painful So if we did it with boiling oil

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well that might be a prob All right there's also

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nothing in the passage to support choice be if a

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person dies from swishing oil in her mouth well then

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it was time to go Choi si is a definite

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no The author tells us that there's no medical proof

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that oil pulling works So if the medical expert went

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around claiming there was proof he'd be begging for a

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lawsuit answer d is the only one that works Truth

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is oil pulling might not actually work way use the

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word allegedly whenever we want to show that something isn't

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a proven fact is just someone's belief from now on

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we're choosing to believe that buffalo wings increase longevity Just 00:01:34.308 --> [endTime] try to prove us wrong

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