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5-Minute Word Challenge #34: Dissemble

Why is vocab-building so important? The greater your vocabulary, the more options you have to write more clearly and persuasively (the purpose behind Lyden’s Lab for Copywriters) – which boosts your value (a.k.a. fees/ salary) in the market place.

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TODAY’S WORD
Dissemble  (dih-sem-buhl)

EXAMINE THE WORD IN CONTEXT
Here are three real-world examples of how the word is used (click on links for full article/ context):

Hand-Holding Across the Aisle New York Times - Aimee Lee ... Where we live, he has to dissemble or keep quiet. I do worry, though, about the safety of my husband in Brooklyn Heights if the truth gets out. ...

Happy Hour Roundup Washington Post (blog) ... You can spin and dissemble all you like but the numbers are what they are ... The only spin and dissembling here is your and your comrades' insistence on ...

The Corner National Review Online - Hans A. von Spakovsky ... Or did it advise Holder to deliberately dissemble  on the issue? The privilege log released by Judicial Watch strongly suggests that political appointees ...

BASED ON THE CONTEXT, CHOOSE THE DEFINITION THAT IS THE BEST MATCH
(Find the answer at bottom of post.)

Dissemble

a) Admit

b) Hide

c) Uncover

d) Engender

PRACTICE USING THE WORD
Write 1-2 headlines or sentences using this word. (Share in the comments section below.)


Set a one-minute time limit to force yourself to think and write faster. Don’t worry about writing a perfect sentence. The goal here is to integrate this word into your vocabulary in a short amount of time, which this exercise will do for you.

FURTHER STUDY
Antonyms and Synonyms of Dissemble


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• #33 Turgid
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• #31 Fecund
• #30 Abstruse
• #29 Conflate

About the Author: Sean M. Lyden is a nationally recognized feature writer on sales, marketing, automotive and technology topics. As a ghostwriter and copywriter, Sean has served clients such as General Motors, SunTrust Service Corporation, Morgan Stanley, Embedded Linux Consortium and Shaw Industries. He’s also co-author of the book How to Succeed and Make Money on Your First Rental House (Wiley, 2003). Follow Sean on Twitter.

Answer: (b)

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5-Minute Word Challenge #33: Turgid

Why is vocab-building so important? The greater your vocabulary, the more options you have to write more clearly and persuasively (the purpose behind Lyden’s Lab for Copywriters) – which boosts your value (a.k.a. fees/ salary) in the market place.

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TODAY’S WORD
Turgid  (tur-jid)

EXAMINE THE WORD IN CONTEXT
Here are three real-world examples of how the word is used (click on links for full article/ context):

'Charlie Chan,' by Yunte Huang San Francisco Chronicle ... Writing easily without turgid academic cant, Huang, a former restaurateur, offers a tasty narrative menu. His research to place Chan in proper context is ...

The Robespierre of the Hedge-Fund Revolution Huffington Post (blog) ... Loeb's turgid and overblown prose (can't he afford a ghostwriter?) serves two very clear business objectives: to impress current and prospective clients and ...

Review: 'Easy A' makes the grade -- mostly San Jose Mercury News - Randy Myers - ‎Sep 13, 2010‎ ... deadpan perfect as an English teacher who can make the turgid prose of "The Scarlet Letter" seem hip. Speaking of which, that English class staple about ..

BASED ON THE CONTEXT, CHOOSE THE DEFINITION THAT IS THE BEST MATCH
(Find the answer at bottom of post.)

Turgid

a) Egregious

b) Stale

c) Inane

d) Pompous

PRACTICE USING THE WORD
Write 1-2 headlines or sentences using this word. (Share in the comments section below.)


Set a one-minute time limit to force yourself to think and write faster. Don’t worry about writing a perfect sentence. The goal here is to integrate this word into your vocabulary in a short amount of time, which this exercise will do for you.

FURTHER STUDY
Antonyms and Synonyms of Turgid


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Last 5 Word Challenges

• #32 Feckless
• #31 Fecund
• #30 Abstruse
• #29 Conflate
• #28 Palatable

About the Author: Sean M. Lyden is a nationally recognized feature writer on sales, marketing, automotive and technology topics. As a ghostwriter and copywriter, Sean has served clients such as General Motors, SunTrust Service Corporation, Morgan Stanley, Embedded Linux Consortium and Shaw Industries. He’s also co-author of the book How to Succeed and Make Money on Your First Rental House (Wiley, 2003). Follow Sean on Twitter.

Answer: (d)

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5-Minute Word Challenge #32: Feckless

Why is vocab-building so important? The greater your vocabulary, the more options you have to write more clearly and persuasively (the purpose behind Lyden’s Lab for Copywriters) – which boosts your value (a.k.a. fees/ salary) in the market place.

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TODAY’S WORD
Feckless (fek-lis)

EXAMINE THE WORD IN CONTEXT
Here are three real-world examples of how the word is used (click on links for full article/ context):

In "The Polluters," Benjamin Ross and Steven Amter call out chemical industry. Washington Post - Seth Shulman ... How could government regulators have been so feckless? As such questions linger, along comes "The Polluters," a remarkably timely, extensively researched ...

Blurring Satire and Politics New York Times - David Carr ... Picture a football game where the reporters and commentators, bored by the feckless proceedings on the field, suddenly poured out of the press ...

World's most inept central bankers Fortune - Colin Barr ... Yet for all that, there are central banks that are even more feckless than the Fed. While the Fed's plan to restore the economy through low interest rates ...


BASED ON THE CONTEXT, CHOOSE THE DEFINITION THAT IS THE BEST MATCH
(Find the answer at bottom of post.)

Feckless

a) Reckless

b) Adroit

c) Incompetent

d) Turgid

PRACTICE USING THE WORD
Write 1-2 headlines or sentences using this word. (Share in the comments section below.)


Set a one-minute time limit to force yourself to think and write faster. Don’t worry about writing a perfect sentence. The goal here is to integrate this word into your vocabulary in a short amount of time, which this exercise will do for you.

FURTHER STUDY
Antonyms and Synonyms of Feckless


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Last 5 Word Challenges

• #31 Fecund
• #30 Abstruse
• #29 Conflate
• #28 Palatable
• #27 Evanescent

About the Author: Sean M. Lyden is a nationally recognized feature writer on sales, marketing, automotive and technology topics. As a ghostwriter and copywriter, Sean has served clients such as General Motors, SunTrust Service Corporation, Morgan Stanley, Embedded Linux Consortium and Shaw Industries. He’s also co-author of the book How to Succeed and Make Money on Your First Rental House (Wiley, 2003). Follow Sean on Twitter.

Answer: (c)

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5-Minute Word Challenge #31: Fecund

Why is vocab-building so important? The greater your vocabulary, the more options you have to write more clearly and persuasively (the purpose behind Lyden’s Lab for Copywriters) – which boosts your value (a.k.a. fees/ salary) in the market place.

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TODAY’S WORD
Fecund (fee-kuhnd)

EXAMINE THE WORD IN CONTEXT
Here are three real-world examples of how the word is used (click on links for full article/ context):

The Twenty Ten course at Celtic Manor Financial Times - Tom Cox ... It's a beautiful, overgrown building, fecund with untold stories of its past; and, much as I like the ornamental pond below it, which guards the 18th green ...

Dumbo is an Elephant  Huffington Post (blog) - ‎Sep 14, 2010‎ ... sociopolitically ignorant or downright suspicious of education and openly embracing of precepts that originated in the fecund minds of religious ...

From the good earth New York Post ... But for my money, Nougatine's profusion of vegetables, fruit, greens and herbs in the waning weeks of this fecund season is the bounty to behold. ...

BASED ON THE CONTEXT, CHOOSE THE DEFINITION THAT IS THE BEST MATCH
(Find the answer at bottom of post.)

Fecund

a) Fertile

b) Barren

c) Fetid

d) Evanescent

PRACTICE USING THE WORD
Write 1-2 headlines or sentences using this word. (Share in the comments section below.)


Set a one-minute time limit to force yourself to think and write faster. Don’t worry about writing a perfect sentence. The goal here is to integrate this word into your vocabulary in a short amount of time, which this exercise will do for you.

FURTHER STUDY
Antonyms and Synonyms of Fecund


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Last 5 Word Challenges

• #30 Abstruse
• #29 Conflate
• #28 Palatable
• #27 Evanescent
• #26 Capacious

About the Author: Sean M. Lyden is a nationally recognized feature writer on sales, marketing, automotive and technology topics. As a ghostwriter and copywriter, Sean has served clients such as General Motors, SunTrust Service Corporation, Morgan Stanley, Embedded Linux Consortium and Shaw Industries. He’s also co-author of the book How to Succeed and Make Money on Your First Rental House (Wiley, 2003). Follow Sean on Twitter.

Answer: (a)

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5-Minute Word Challenge #30: Abstruse

Why is vocab-building so important? The greater your vocabulary, the more options you have to write more clearly and persuasively (the purpose behind Lyden’s Lab for Copywriters) – which boosts your value (a.k.a. fees/ salary) in the market place.

 

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TODAY’S WORD

Abstruse (ab-stroos)

 

EXAMINE THE WORD IN CONTEXT

Here are three real-world examples of how the word is used (click on links for full article/ context):

Basel's Capital Illusions Wall Street Journal - George Melloan ... The Basel rule makers, after beavering away once more trying to define such abstruse concepts as strong and weak capital and high versus low risks... 

What Is Moderate Islam? Wall Street Journal - Anwar Ibrahim ... The pastor and the rabbi can, no doubt, find abstruse scriptural justifications for their angry actions. And so it is with Islam's fringe: Our radicals find ...

The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time The Christian Century - Judith Shulevitz ... "It is hard for the modern mind to grasp how life-threatening such abstruse distinctions could be." The cumulative effect of surveying the long history of ...

BASED ON THE CONTEXT, CHOOSE THE DEFINITION THAT IS THE BEST MATCH

(Find the answer at bottom of post.)

 

Abstruse

a) Comprehensible

b) Esoteric

c) Awkward

d) Creative

 

PRACTICE USING THE WORD

Write 1-2 headlines or sentences using this word. (Share in the comments section below.)

Set a one-minute time limit to force yourself to think and write faster. Don’t worry about writing a perfect sentence. The goal here is to integrate this word into your vocabulary in a short amount of time, which this exercise will do for you.

 

FURTHER STUDY

Antonyms and Synonyms of Abstruse

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• #29 Conflate
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• #27 Evanescent
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About the Author: Sean M. Lyden is a nationally recognized feature writer on sales, marketing, automotive and technology topics. As a ghostwriter and copywriter, Sean has served clients such as General Motors, SunTrust Service Corporation, Morgan Stanley, Embedded Linux Consortium and Shaw Industries. He’s also co-author of the book How to Succeed and Make Money on Your First Rental House (Wiley, 2003). Follow Sean on Twitter.

 

 

Answer: (b)

 

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5-Minute Word Challenge #29: Conflate

Why is vocab-building so important? The greater your vocabulary, the more options you have to write more clearly and persuasively (the purpose behind Lyden’s Lab for Copywriters) – which boosts your value (a.k.a. fees/ salary) in the market place.

 

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TODAY’S WORD

Conflate (kuhn-fleyt)

 

EXAMINE THE WORD IN CONTEXT

Here are three real-world examples of how the word is used (click on links for full article/ context):

Google CEO Eric Schmidt: “We don't do data mining” TopNews United States - Ethan Oliveira ... Despite the fact that Colbert seemed to conflate Google's enviable accumulation of user data with its search algorithms, Schmidt remained unwavering in his ...

Work together, don't worship together The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog) ... The problem is that many people want to conflate the two beliefs. They sincerely claim (or pretend to believe) that there is really no difference in the God ...

The road to Election Day: Who has early advantage in message, money, media and ... Dallas Morning News ... Perry hopes to conflate Democratic rival White and President Barack Obama in the minds of voters. Will cast himself as a moderate, business-friendly ...

BASED ON THE CONTEXT, CHOOSE THE DEFINITION THAT IS THE BEST MATCH

(Find the answer at bottom of post.)

 

Conflate

a) Separate

b) Fill

c) Merge

d) Complain

 

PRACTICE USING THE WORD

Write 1-2 headlines or sentences using this word. (Feel free to share in the comments section below.)

Set a one-minute time limit to force yourself to think and write faster. Don’t worry about writing a perfect sentence. The goal here is to integrate this word into your vocabulary in a short amount of time, which this exercise will do for you.

 

FURTHER STUDY

Other examples using Conflate

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• #28 Palatable
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About the Author: Sean M. Lyden is a nationally recognized feature writer on sales, marketing, automotive and technology topics. As a ghostwriter and copywriter, Sean has served clients such as General Motors, SunTrust Service Corporation, Morgan Stanley, Embedded Linux Consortium and Shaw Industries. He’s also co-author of the book How to Succeed and Make Money on Your First Rental House (Wiley, 2003). Follow Sean on Twitter.

 

 

Answer: (c)

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5-Minute Word Challenge #28: Palatable

Why is vocab-building so important? The greater your vocabulary, the more options you have to write more clearly and persuasively (the purpose behind Lyden’s Lab for Copywriters) – which boosts your value (a.k.a. fees/ salary) in the market place.

 

New to the 5-Minute Word Challenge? Check out the original post to give you a greater idea of what to expect.

 

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TODAY’S WORD

Palatable (pal-uh-tuh-buhl)

 

EXAMINE THE WORD IN CONTEXT

Here are three real-world examples of how the word is used (click on links for full article/ context):

'Corn sugar' is proposed for name of sweetener DesMoinesRegister.com- Philip Brasher ... Washington, DC — Would high fructose corn syrup be more palatable to users by another name? ....

Readers: Balance Ohio budget with fewer services Bizjournals.com ... 16 percent said reduced services and higher taxes would be acceptable; and 8 percent of readers thought neither was a palatable option. ...

Social Safety Net Greases Wheels of Capitalism Newsweek ... FDR's New Deal made capitalism politically palatable and, with the advent of unemployment benefits, created a more flexible labor market because if people ...

BASED ON THE CONTEXT, CHOOSE THE DEFINITION THAT IS THE BEST MATCH

(Find the answer at bottom of post.)

 

Palatable

a) Agreeable

b) Distasteful

c) Capable

d) Effective

 

PRACTICE USING THE WORD

Write 1-2 headlines or sentences using this word. (Share in the comments section below.)

Set a one-minute time limit to force yourself to think and write faster. Don’t worry about writing a perfect sentence. The goal here is to integrate this word into your vocabulary in a short amount of time, which this exercise will do for you.

 

FURTHER STUDY

Antonyms and Synonyms of Palatable

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• #27 Evanescent
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• #25 Repine
• #24 Muss
• #23 Sallow

 

About the Author: Sean M. Lyden is a nationally recognized feature writer on sales, marketing, automotive and technology topics. As a ghostwriter and copywriter, Sean has served clients such as General Motors, SunTrust Service Corporation, Morgan Stanley, Embedded Linux Consortium and Shaw Industries. He’s also co-author of the book How to Succeed and Make Money on Your First Rental House (Wiley, 2003). Follow Sean on Twitter.

 

 

Answer: (a)

 

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5-Minute Word Challenge #27: Evanescent

Why is vocab-building so important? The greater your vocabulary, the more options you have to write more clearly and persuasively (the purpose behind Lyden’s Lab for Copywriters) – which boosts your value (a.k.a. fees/ salary) in the market place.

 

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TODAY’S WORD

Evanescent (ev-uh-nes-uhnt)

 

EXAMINE THE WORD IN CONTEXT

Here are three real-world examples of how the word is used (click on links for full article/ context):

The Republican Answer to George Soros's Money Wall Street Journal - Joseph Rago ... Other GOP third parties tend to be evanescent, "developing a huge capacity and know-how and then disbanding." The Swift Boat Veterans in 2004 is the classic ...

Tokyo's Relationship Anxiety Wall Street Journal - Michael Auslin ... and think and act globally within a multilateral framework, such as the evanescent East Asian Community rubric or under United Nations auspices. 

The Corporate Conscience Fast Company - Seth Godin - ‎Sep 2, 2010‎ .. It's convenient and even comfortable to blame the anonymous actions of many working in concert on a evanescent brand or organization, but that starts you on ...

BASED ON THE CONTEXT, CHOOSE THE DEFINITION THAT IS THE BEST MATCH

(Find the answer at bottom of post.)

 

Evanescent

a) Enticing

b) Ebullient

c) Stable

d) Fleeting

 

PRACTICE USING THE WORD

Write 1-2 headlines or sentences using this word. (Share in the comments section below.)

Set a one-minute time limit to force yourself to think and write faster. Don’t worry about writing a perfect sentence. The goal here is to integrate this word into your vocabulary in a short amount of time, which this exercise will do for you.

 

FURTHER STUDY

Antonyms and Synonyms of Evanescent

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• #26 Capacious
  
• #25 Repine
• #24 Muss
• #23 Sallow
• #22 Inveterate

 

About the Author: Sean M. Lyden is a nationally recognized feature writer on sales, marketing, automotive and technology topics. As a ghostwriter and copywriter, Sean has served clients such as General Motors, SunTrust Service Corporation, Morgan Stanley, Embedded Linux Consortium and Shaw Industries. He’s also co-author of the book How to Succeed and Make Money on Your First Rental House (Wiley, 2003). Follow Sean on Twitter.

 

 

Answer: (d)

 

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5-Minute Word Challenge #26: Capacious

Why is vocab-building so important? The greater your vocabulary, the more options you have to write more clearly and persuasively (the purpose behind Lyden’s Lab for Copywriters) – which boosts your value (a.k.a. fees/ salary) in the market place.

 

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TODAY’S WORD

Capacious (kuh-pey-shuhs)

 

EXAMINE THE WORD IN CONTEXT

Here are three real-world examples of how the word is used (click on links for full article/ context):

Hawaii's Aloha spirit is being tested in Democratic primary for governor Washington Post - Jason Horowitz ... HONOLULU -- In an empty, capacious room in the Neil Abercrombie for Governor headquarters, the candidate stood behind a lectern to tape a ...

Toronto 2010: 'Black Swan' gets an academy dry run Los Angeles Times (blog) ... The crowd that turns out to the most formal of Toronto venues, the capacious Roy Thomson Hall, is usually enthusiastic but exactingly polite. ...

Trippy Trip Suitcase with Speakers and Seat Wired (blog) - Charlie Sorrel ... I have no love for wheelie-cases, preferring a lighter, more capacious backpack, so perhaps I am biased, but even for the lazy traveler it seems foolish to ...

BASED ON THE CONTEXT, CHOOSE THE DEFINITION THAT IS THE BEST MATCH

(Find the answer at bottom of post.)

 

Capacious

a) Cramped

b) High

c) Spacious

d) Dangerous

 

PRACTICE USING THE WORD

Write 1-2 headlines or sentences using this word. (Share in the comments section below.)

Set a one-minute time limit to force yourself to think and write faster. Don’t worry about writing a perfect sentence. The goal here is to integrate this word into your vocabulary in a short amount of time, which this exercise will do for you.

 

FURTHER STUDY

Antonyms and Synonyms of Capacious

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• #25 Repine
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• #23 Sallow
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• #21 Adumbrate

 

About the Author: Sean M. Lyden is a nationally recognized feature writer on sales, marketing, automotive and technology topics. As a ghostwriter and copywriter, Sean has served clients such as General Motors, SunTrust Service Corporation, Morgan Stanley, Embedded Linux Consortium and Shaw Industries. He’s also co-author of the book How to Succeed and Make Money on Your First Rental House (Wiley, 2003). Follow Sean on Twitter.

 

 

Answer: (c)

 

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5-Minute Word Challenge #25: Repine

Why is vocab-building so important? The greater your vocabulary, the more options you have to write more clearly and persuasively (the purpose behind Lyden’s Lab for Copywriters) – which boosts your value (a.k.a. fees/ salary) in the market place.

 

New to the 5-Minute Word Challenge? Check out the original post to give you a greater idea of what to expect.

 

Let’s get started!

 

TODAY’S WORD

Repine (ri-pahyn)

 

EXAMINE THE WORD IN CONTEXT

Here are three real-world examples of how the word is used (click on links for full article/ context):

DESPONDENCY. - Front Page - NYTimes.com New York Times ... We merely wish to remind them that our enemies will be satisfied with nothing less, and that, therefore, it is useless to repine. What is there to make us ...

VIRGINIA. - Letter from B.Johnson Barbour, Esq. - Article - NYTimes.co... New York Times ... Is it right to repine over lost hopes, when the future spreads fresher and grander ones before us? Even our natural grief for the gallant dead should be ...

The California Gold Discoverer, John A. Sutter. - Article - NYTimes.co... New York Times ... SUTTER is not a man to repine at his lot, however hard it may be, and be now goes to revisit his birthplace among the mountains of Switzerland with the same ...

BASED ON THE CONTEXT, CHOOSE THE DEFINITION THAT IS THE BEST MATCH

(Find the answer at bottom of post.)

 

Repine

a) Complain

b) Think

c) Thank

d) Praise

 

PRACTICE USING THE WORD

Practice writing 2-3 sentences of your own using this word. (Feel free to share in the comments section below.)

Set a one-minute time limit to force yourself to think and write faster. Don’t worry about writing a perfect sentence. The goal here is to integrate this word into your vocabulary in a short amount of time, which this exercise will do for you.

 

FURTHER STUDY

Antonyms and Synonyms of Repine

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About the Author: Sean M. Lyden is a nationally recognized feature writer on sales, marketing, automotive and technology topics. As a ghostwriter and copywriter, Sean has served clients such as General Motors, SunTrust Service Corporation, Morgan Stanley, Embedded Linux Consortium and Shaw Industries. He’s also co-author of the book How to Succeed and Make Money on Your First Rental House (Wiley, 2003). Follow Sean on Twitter.

 

 

Answer: (a)

 

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