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Contraposition Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

picked over

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1. What does 'picked over' mean?
2. What does 'in their dinner things' mean?
3. What does 'seethed with shocked curiosity' mean?
4. What does 'ill-disguised excitement' mean?
  

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Let’s say you have a bowl with red grapes and green grapes in front of you. Your preference is red, so you pick the red over the green most of the time. You will eventually have ‘picked over’ the grapes and left mostly green.

— Wilpeter

  • Let’s say you have a bowl with red grapes and green grapes in front of you.
  • Your preference is red, so you pick the red over the green most of the time.
  • You will eventually have ‘picked over’ the grapes and left mostly green.
  • With rumours or stories, some parts of what has been heard over and over are more gossip-worthy than others (like red grapes) and are ‘picked over’.
  • The era in which the story was based required that people dress appropriately for dinner.
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Let’s say you have a bowl with red grapes and green grapes in front of you. Your preference is red, so you pick the red over the green most of the time. You will eventually have ‘picked over’ the grapes and left mostly green. With rumours or stories, some parts of what has been heard over and over are more gossip-worthy than others (like red grapes) and are ‘picked over’.
The era in which t
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