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shore brought to you by vampire bass It's Pretty much

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unanimous They suck Checking the passage All right we're just

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going to skim through this thing along because it's long

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as its long oh it's so long long long editor

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just keep flipping the placards Few people really want to

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sit We read this eighteen times you khun just hit

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pause and uh well that worked Okay so there we

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go We're down at the placards let's move on as

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used in the fourth paragraph of paragraph too immature most

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closely means what And here the potential answers and know

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that the name schlock is not one of the choices

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you've chosen Ah finally a word we know a little

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something about yeah excuse us while we take off these

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groucho glasses and put down our rubber chicken Okay immature

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we've certainly been called that enough times to know what

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it means that one of the nicer things we've been

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called it can have different shades of meaning though this

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question wants to know what it means in this instance

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So let's take a look at the sentence in which

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it appears A secondary reason is that many of the

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non breeding members of the colony are immature and in

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extended periods of childhood Okay so now let's check out

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our answer choices and see if we can figure out

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which alternate word might work just as well A naive

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we'd be naive if we thought this was the right

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answer The line follows up the word immature with the

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phrase in extended periods of childhood Indicating this this is

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really a reference to the age of the colony members

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rather than they're a gullibility or lack of judgment so

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naive and it's too little dot thing is there can

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get tossed We could make the same determination with regard

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to option b sophomoric Once again we're not talking about

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mole rats who get off on putting whoopee cushions in

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the appropriate places These aren't animals in need of a

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personality adjustment They're merely young Toby won't work either See

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frail and as much closer very young animal are often

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frail or fragile andy would make sense to Since babies

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are also undeveloped i have to choose between these two

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We may have to re just a tiny bit further

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here's the sentence that comes next in the passage that

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colony provides them with extra protection until they can mature

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and reproduce successfully There we go The main idea here

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is that they can't reproduce yet meaning they haven't developed

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certain doodads that may be required for such a process

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So in a close race the best answer here is 00:02:30.678 --> [endTime] undeveloped like our sense of propriety

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