<span>D. But we had not traveled fifty miles down the stream before we found the water gradually becoming brackish and discolored from the salt and</span>
That suffix means the act of :)
D.
Explanation: choice D describes how Meagan is having trouble finding friends because of moving to a new school. This is a major conflict of the passage.
A simile, it's comparing two things using the words "like" or "as" (in this case "like")
In his “Inaugural Address,” John F. Kennedy claims that the only way the American nation will be able to preserve its democratic freedom is by working together and remaining united regardless of any personal differences.
~To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support--to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective--to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak--and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.
<u><em>~United We Stand!!!</em></u>
