Context clues are hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word within a book. The clue may appear within the same sentence as the word to which it refers or it may follow in the next sentence. A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that some word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation. A connotation is frequently described as either positive or negative, with regard to its pleasing or displeasing emotional connection.
Past
The possibility to change the plan was past.
B,c,d are the correct one
Smidgen means a small amount of something.
noun , informal
a small amount : bit <a smidgen of salt> <a smidgen of common sense>
