Question
in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" "I am still a little afraid of missing something if it forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth" Which is the best replacement for "parcelled out": donated; assigned; revealed; required; taken
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In the context of the sentence, the best replacement for "parcelled out" is "assigned." This maintains the original meaning of something being distributed or allocated unevenly.
So the revised sentence would read: "I am still a little afraid of missing something if it forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is assigned unequally at birth."
So the revised sentence would read: "I am still a little afraid of missing something if it forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is assigned unequally at birth."