<span>1. Samantha tried to look impassive when they announced her essay as a finalist in the competition. - impassive means not to show any feelings, so <u>unemotional </u>is the correct answer
2. </span><span>Mr. Bradford lunged at his wedding ring as it fell into the vortex of the bathtub drain. - vortex is when a liquid is rotating around its center, which means that the correct answer is <u>whirlpool</u>
3. </span><span>Sarah’s mother mollified her screaming baby by giving her a teddy bear to hold. - to mollify means to appease, which means that the correct answer is <u>calmed</u>
4. This question is incomplete so I cannot answer it</span>
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1. rederick Douglass was born in slavery to a Black mother and a white father. At age eight the man who owned him sent him to Baltimore, Maryland, to live in the household of Hugh Auld. There Auld's wife taught Douglass to read. Douglass attempted to escape slavery at age 15 but was discovered before he could do so.
2. Separated as an infant from his slave mother (he never knew his white father), Frederick lived with his grandmother on a Maryland plantation until he was eight years old, when his owner sent him to Baltimore to live as a house servant with the family of Hugh Auld, whose wife defied state law by teaching the boy to read
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