1. Word or Expression: Hoodwinked
Meaning: To be tricked into doing something.
Sentence: The clerk hoodwinked Samantha into buying a very expensive soap.
2. Word or Expression: In a pickle.
Meaning: In a lot of trouble.
Sentence: We’re in quite the pickle. We are out of gas.
C. Written Practice
Use at least two words or phrases in a paragraph.
John was in quite a pickle when he realized he had to dates for the same party. He didn’t sleep a wink because of a gloomy thought he had that the girls would get upset and gossip about it and he would become the laughingstock of the party. He went to the party and noticed that only one of his dates were there. He went to talk to her but she was green eyed with jealousy. He explain to her that he had forgot about his first date and went to ask her. She said that she forgave him but she didn’t budge an inch. Then, his second date walked away and mumble words that were Greek to him<span>. Later, his first date come in and John danced with her for the rest of the night.</span>
Answer:
Paine's opinion is that God will not allow the colonists to be conquered because they have tried so hard to avoid war.
Explanation:
"(...)<u>my secret opinion</u> has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war(...)"
That's the key opinion of the excerpt from Thomas Paine's essay. The rest of the phrases and sentences are arguments or secondary key points that derivates from that principal statement: As we have sought to avoid the calamities of war, God Almighty won't give us destruction.
Answer:
re-
Explanation:
The prefix is re- because a prefix is something you add at the beginning of a word.
Answer:
D Gently rocking the cradle.
Answer:
D. "Drones of the 21st century are the slingshots of the 1940s."
Explanation:
