An author or writer uses his counterclaim as his refutation because a counterclaim is literally what it says. What the writer or author is going against in his writing and which side he is opposing or going with.
<span> The correct answer is - The rite of clipping of hair or shaving the head to denote admission of a candidate to a religious order, often as a monk; in the case of Hinduism, women of a high caste once widowed will undergo this in order to distinguish themselves from other women
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The average IQ according to the Stanford-Binet test is 90-109