If the latin root plaudere means “to applaud,” which bolded word means “able to be applauded” or “worthy of belief”? a) the jury members were insulted by the suggestion that they were pliable. b) the shirt was hard to iron because it was pleated. c) it wasn’t plausible. that the vase broke by itself. d) the park was overrun by a plethora of pigeons.

closer examination, however, finds the mcdonald's kind of job highly uneducational in several ways. far from providing opportunities for entrepreneurship (the lemonade stand) or self- discipline, self-supervision, and self-scheduling (the paper route), most teen jobs these days are highly structured — what social scientists call “highly routinized.”  

true, you still have to have the gumption to get yourself over to the hamburger stand, but once you don the prescribed uniform, your task is spelled out in minute detail.