As a noun, a harangue is a long, aggressive speech.
As a verb, to harangue is to teach someone in an aggressive, unfriendly manner.
The answer that best fits this description is B. to give a pompous speech to.
A, discourage you can tell because if you plug in the options that is the only one that makes sense and the opposite of dissuade is persuade which means to encourage.
After “because,” you always want to put an explanation.
Answer:
Prompt 1: The society in the Giver, is structured in such a way that promotes security over freedom. The people have no choices or freedom of any kind, yet they don't need to worry about getting enough resources, or basic survival needs because everything is planned out by the government.
Prompt 2: I would say that the attitude toward euthanasia is mostly accepted because that is what is written into the society, and part of your planned out life. However, I think you would need to go back to the text and pay attention to the tone and word choices around that subject.