No @immersed
@Baikster
Trust me it’s assert.
Does anyone remember any of the dual passages
I think it’s pretty common for someone to “assert” their point of view or argument, but I’ve never heard “retain” used in that context… Even if you want to get technical and look at the definition of “assert,” the way the guy really dogmatically asserts the different measures of defining creativity could be seen as a bit forceful… idk
@chromodynamics im kinda siding with you now, but do you know why retain wouldnt be right, seems that all this debating must mean that it was a very subjective question
@IBNick I probably read that part of the passage completely differently then
Well…I mean…
If I maintain that something is correct…you could also say that I asserted that something was correct.
Retain. . . I guess. . .it just sounded awkward. Anyways, in the context of the question I’m pretty sure asserted was the one that just made more sense.
oh nvm about that last part i forgot exactly where it was used
What was the answer to the perimeter of the shaded regions of the circle triangle and hexagon
Do we know if it was personification or analogy i was going back and forth between the 2
assert worked the best in that sentence. Retain might have been ok, but the best answer was probably assert.
thats what i got for the polygons
@Baikster So first of all retain is not a real synonym of maintain, which invalidates any argument for retain straight off the bat. Also, assert is a synonym of maintain according to merriam webster. Retain means you hold on to something, which the people in the passage werent doing, they were stating their views, which is what assert means. It just doesnt make sense to use retain in this context, even less so as a synonym for maintain.
Analogy I think. Does anyone remember the complaints question?
I didn’t see any inanimate objects taking on human characteristics, but there were analogies. I said analogy.
what was the answer to the vocab question that talked about a peacock’s feathers? i said canopy but idk
@wehaveguests plumage…?
plumage = a bird’s feathers.
Do you remember the question with the creativity passage that had “add to a debate” as one of the answers. It was the last question of the section.