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Remembering that the Latin prefix “dis” means “not,” use your knowledge of the prefix and the context clues in the passage to determine the meaning of dissembling. Write your definition of dissembling here and explain how you arrived at it. The tell tale heart

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Since “dis” means “not,” I can use my prior knowledge of vocabulary as well as my knowledge of prefixes’. The root of dissemble is assemble, which I know means to put together. Combining that with the prefix of “dis” means dissemble means to take something apart.

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To masquared our emotions. To portray something that is not true

Step-by-step explanation:

Dissemble according to the dictionary is the action of disguise our emotions as something that they´re something that they aren´t, dis-semble is to not show our semblant or to hide our face and simili in latin which is basically simulare in latin, or to appear something, that is the meaning of dissemble.

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