<span>The underlined words are impetuous,
barbarously, impious, and preposterous.</span>
<span>In the
given sentences, these words match the following contextual meanings because of
how they used in the sentences:</span>
Impetuous - rapid and powerful<span>
barbarously - coarse and uncivilized
impious - disrespectful, irreverent
preposterous - absurd, unreasonable </span>
The correct answer is:
a.
Run on
The given sentence is
an example of a run on sentence which is also known as a “fused sentence”. It has
two parts wherein either part can stand alone without the other. But instead of
being connected properly, they have been pieced together inaccurately and could
still be improved.