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<li><p>His goal was to ______ the committee's deliberations, and a measure of his success was the ease with which a decision was reached.
The answer was "exacerbate", but I chose "facilitate".</p></li>
<li><p>The crude animated effects ______ projected images from seventeenth-century lantern slides have now been recognized as _______ of modern film animation.
The answer was "afforded by...forerunners", but I chose "complemented by...antecedents".</p></li>
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<p>Explain?
I'll be adding some more questions to this thread soon.</p>

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<p>1)

The answer given should be “facilitate.” “Ease” means “facility.” Doing something with ease is doing it with facility, or bringing it about (“his plan facilitated growth”). If you know Spanish, you know facil means easy.</p>

<p>The answer is certainly not “exacerbate” as that is the opposite of “facilitate.” To exacerbate is to make something more difficult, which does not comply with “ease” or the fact that the decision was made.</p>

<p>You might argue that it made the deliberations or debates harder to conduct because a clean-cut decision was made, but that is over-thinking it. Usually you just find a keyword (“ease”) and find a synonym (“facility”).</p>

<p>2)

A forerunner and an antecedent are basically the same thing, so what the correct answer is comes down to the relationship between the effects and the images. These two words certainly look “complementary,” but it does not fit in the sentence. Think of an “image” coming from a “slide.” It is a single, inanimate thing. So, a number of slides produces a crude, animated effect. To afford something (e.g. money) is to produce it.</p>

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<p>^How do you quote messages like that?</p>

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<p>^the parentheses should be brackets </p>

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<p>Thank you! Nice it worked.
Test:

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<p>Also, how do you bold and underline words?</p>

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<p>^this page has all the codes –> [College</a> Confidential - BB Code List](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/misc.php?do=bbcode]College”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/misc.php?do=bbcode)</p>

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<p>^Thanks! 10char</p>

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<p>Thanks crazybandit.
Yeah I didn’t realize I had the right answer, whoops. lol</p>

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<p>nvm… whoops</p>

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<p>This may be hard to answer without knowing about the passage but let’s see…</p>

<p>“We are humiliated by what is powerful and mean but awed by what is powerful and noble.”
In this line, the word “mean” most nearly means
They have the answer as “base” but I don’t understand exactly what it means in this sentence?</p>

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<p>“Base” means “mean-spirited,” “dishonorable,” “selfish,” etc., basically the primary definition of “mean.” I guess it comes from the fact that the base represents the bottom (i.e., in society). If you didn’t know what it meant, you reasonably could have figured it to be the correct answer through process of elimination. Usually the other answer choices are way off and representative of the secondary definitions.</p>