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CAHSEE ELA 9.3 Ambiguities. Which of the following is an example of figurative language in the previous passage?
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Reading: Word Analysis, Problem 3. What is the meaning of the word mediate?
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- 00:03
Here's a shmoopy question you might find on an exam somewhere in life...
- 00:07
Two of my friends were arguing about who was the more argumentative of the two, and even
- 00:12
though I didn't want to get in the middle of their fight, I agreed to mediate.
- 00:16
What is the meaning of the word mediate? And here are the potential answers:
- 00:24
So... what is "mediate"?
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- 00:27
No... that's meat he ate.
- 00:29
Let's break up the word to get the answer.
- 00:32
MEDI -- kinda sounds like medium... or maybe a derivative of middle?
- 00:37
Technically, it comes from the Latin "medius"...
- 00:40
So... take a leap and we can think about putting something in the middle.
- 00:44
If you mediate, you take a position in the middle... and try to get each angry party's
- 00:49
perspective to make them happy.
- 00:52
Well, as happy as you can. D is the opposite of mediate and will result
- 00:55
in nothing but more arguing. Which could actually be what your bizarro friends want.
- 01:01
You do A and C -- so neither one is an awful answer here...
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But we want the BEST answer... and that's B -- mediate means to help bring about agreement.
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Which means more peace and quiet for everyone involved.
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