You did not provide the excerpt but I wound it and the correct answers are the following two sentences:
1.<span>For once, at least, I grasped the mental operations of the Morlocks.
Here we see that they do possess a kind of intelligence, maybe at first strange and unclear but it is there, no matter how strange it might seem.
2.</span><span>I was surprised to find it had been carefully oiled and cleaned.
Here the Time Traveler has found his Time Machine and he finds that the Morlocks had tried to grasp its function and its purpose. They have taken it apart and then cleaned and oiled it, which suggests they know somethings about how the machine work.
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A shellfish is different from other fishes because it has a shell to protect it from other creatures
Misogyny is the hatred or discrimination against women, so your answer should be two words that have that relationship.
You know that A is not correct because divest means to take away possessions, and that isn't hatred against property.
You know that B is not correct because pathological means relating to disease, not hatred to disease.
Finally, you know that C can't be the right answer because progeny means descendants, not hatred of children.
Misogamy is the hatred of marriage, so D is your answer.
<span>The transition word is 'but' it allows the reader to understand there is another part to the sentence. That there is a cause and effect to the sentence.</span>
