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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by clumsiness it might be

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responsible for a lot of dishes getting broken but silver lining it's pretty [Guy drops a big pile of dishes]

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great if you enjoy sweeping up piles of glass shards alright read the following sentence, [Guy sweeping up the mess with a broom]

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They said Marie was clumsy but compared to Jenny she was positively nimble and [The sentence being typed out]

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here's our question, based on the context of the sentence what does nimble mean [The potential answers appear]

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Here are potential answers. Alright well so the big clue in the [Pirate pause button appears]

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sentence is but the sentence starts out by saying Marie is clumsy but the handy [Marie drops a load of books]

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little but tells us the narrator actually thinks otherwise so if she's

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not clumsy what is she and no she's Marie is not an acceptable answer nice [Marie pointing to her name badge]

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try and let's also keep in mind that the word clumsy means awkward and

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uncoordinated think of a cow in ice skates, no offense to any cold metal cow [The ice skating cow falls over]

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skaters out there but so you know we're just saying all right based on our hint

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we need to look for a word that's related to clumsy maybe even the

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opposite so let's start with a being soft doesn't really have anything to do

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with being clumsy though if you are clumsy it probably is a good idea to [Guy climbing up a ladder]

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hang out your soft stuff helps to break your fall yeah but for our purposes a is [Guy falls off the ladder onto a mattress]

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out what about B again clumsy and fearful aren't really all that related [Kid playing on a swing]

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parents are probably fearful for their clumsy kids and kids fearful for their [The kid falls off the swing]

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clumsy parents but that doesn't help us so B is gone how about D clumsy people

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can certainly be friendly they need all the friends they can get for when they [Man falls down a pothole]

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need a ride to the emergency room but these two words aren't related in a way

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that helps us out so D is out yeah that leaves us with C now we're talking

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being clumsy and being agile are complete opposites as a matter of fact

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nimble and agile are synonyms so we have our answer Marie and Jenny sound like [The answer C is highlighted]

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quite the clumsy pair let's hope they don't get into the window installation

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business though the glass shard sweeping industry might be their style... [Marie and Jenny pick up a window and drop it]

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