The question is asking you to explain the meaning of the word violent.
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Aunt Gwen was definitely different! To Jenny, she was evidence that you can be an individual and still have a successful career throughout your life. On the same day that Jenny was 16 and Gwen was 60, they decided to tackle Gwen's photograph album. It was like walking into a paint shop. Aunt Gwen had a different hair colour for every year of her life. One year, emerald green, another, baltic blue. Another year, satsuma orange followed by damson purple. And now, at 60, Gwen had decided to celebrate with a shade of ruby, the symbol for marriage after 40 years. Although the colour hadn't quite turned out to be the shade of ruby she had expected, Gwen was thrilled with the outcome, and Jenny found herself sitting next to a violent shade of red.
What does the word violent tell you about the colour of Aunt Gwen's hair?
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- Read the question and read it again. What is it asking?
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- What do we know about the Aunt Gwen's hair? Read around the sentence.
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It was a shade of ruby. But the colour wasn't what Gwen had expected it to be.
- What do you know about the colour ruby?
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It is a shade of red.
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It is quite a deep, dark shade of red. It is a strong colour.
- Write the words in the sentence to see if it makes sense.
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Jenny found herself sitting next to a deep, dark shade of red.
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The word violent tells me that the hair was a deep and dark shade of red that shocked Jenny.
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