<p>can i just say one thing, look guys the question asked perplex in context, and in the sentence the woman wasn’t able to ENTANGLE in other chores because she had to let the servants etc do it, so she wasn’t able to keep her self BUSY by entangling in other endeavors, trouble means she wasn’t able to trouble herself with other things, she wasn’t troubling herself in the first place with chores so that doesn’t make sense, honestly i also debated between these two and it seemed highly likely that entangled was the correct answer.</p>
<p>oohh see in context it would make a diff. 
I was responding to: “perplex = trouble or entangle???”</p>
<p>agreed with xindianx ^^
most of the time trouble would be better, but in the context, nothing bad was happening and nothing was bothering her in the first place, so entangle works best. OWNAGE</p>
<p>It was troubled. Use it in context with the overall essay.</p>
<p>son, it didn’t ask you to use it in context with the whole essay, it’s a LINE (SENTENCE) reference question, which simply means you use it in context with that sentence, and maybe use a sentence before and after as hints…i would really appreciate if whoever requested a student answer sheet thing to see if it was in fact trouble or entangle, because i spent a good 1.5 min on that question and still strongly believe it was entangle.</p>
<p>btw…quick edit, even if it were in context with the whole essay, she mentioned throughout the essay that she loved cooking, cleaning, etc etc, she wasn’t troubled by it, it was things that kept her busy and made her feel happy, things that she “entangled” in to keep herself occupied. so even with context of the whole essay, entangle works better.</p>
<p>lol…jersey kid flaming immigrants, what a joke…haha</p>
<p>btw…don’t tell me that it is or isn’t warranted for a two paragraph explaination, that’s why it’s an “explaination”…ironically enough, i wrote my essay on how “majority” doesn’t rule…</p>
<p>i believe the line was something like “…leaving mrs. d with nothing to perplex her except how she would spend the day.” in the sentence angel’s just told mrs. d to leave to housework to the servants, so mrs. d has nothing to do. i was pretty sure it was “trouble,” but now i’m confused lol. if she has nothing to trouble her, she has nothing to worry about except what to occupy herself with. if she has nothing to entangle her, she has no obligations. :eek: it seems to work both ways</p>
<p>i said trouble fer sure… i was about to pick entangle for a few secs, but i decided better of it</p>
<p>yea i got trouble and am not convinced that it is anything BUt trouble</p>
<p>trouble:: 15
entangle:4</p>
<p>i got ur back xindianx haha</p>
<p>this is why i hate CR</p>
<p>i put trouble</p>
<p>actually this is one of the only questions people are arguing about…cr seemed easy this time around</p>
<p>Trouble doesn’t always have a negative connotation either. It can just mean to concern oneself with. For instance, I could say to a nosy person, “do not trouble yourself with my affairs”, &c &c. Overall, I think trouble is more positive than entangle. Entangle does not merely mean to involve oneself, but it indicates that one has involved oneself in such a degree as to be unable to escape from whatever it is that one has involved oneself in. That just doesn’t sound right when applied to the Madam’s housework, in which she enjoyed herself.</p>
<p>If deus ex machina is right about what the sentence was, then it must be trouble.
The reason is that “perplex” in that sentence refers to what she’s thinking about. She has nothing to think about except how she would spend her day. Trouble is the only thing that fits. Just try replacing the words.</p>
<p>Not to mention - xindianx’s explanation has one gaping flaw. BOTH trouble and entangle usually have negative connotations. To entangle yourself if your chores implies more than simply keeping yourself busy. It implies that you’re overwhelmed by the sheer amount of chores you have to do.</p>
<p>EDIT: oops, I posted without reading the above post. But yeah, exactly what dualityim said about entangle.</p>
<p>It’s trouble. :)</p>
<p>entangle</p>
<p>trouble: 14
entangle: 5</p>
<p>trouble duhhhhhh 15-5</p>
<p>Entangle</p>
<p>We shouldn’t go by majority rule. We should go by if you’ve taken the SAT before and give weights to people’s answers based on how high they scored on Verbal before.</p>