True, the origin of a word is when the word was first known to be used.
Answer:
As regards the poem, America is described as a merging of a variety of voices, American voices. He describes it as what people sing while working. People is portrayed as very different from each other but with the same vision of the country. America is seen as plural, many occupations and skills but it has equal opportunities for them
This is a personal question. I will answer below according to the word that was unfamiliar to me, but feel free to add to the answer in case there were more for you.
Answer and Explanation:
The word that I found unfamiliar and whose meaning I did not know at first was "behest". I had never seen that word before. To understand its meaning, I looked for context clues. <u>The rest of the sentence in which "behest" appears functions as a clue to finding its meaning. It says that, at a person's behest, something happened: "the Exhibition dropped its superfluous rags and stripped itself. . ." As soon as I read this part, it made me think of the word "command." For instance, the sentence "At the general's command, the troops advanced" has a similar connotation to the one with "behest".</u>
To confirm my assumptions, I looked the word up online and found it indeed means "order" or "command".
A celebration of Native Americans returning to their old ways of life. ... What does the Grand Coulee Dam represent to Native Americans? It represent great change on their way of life. The dam blocks the river which is causing negative effects on the salmon population.
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