As of today we have, as I noted early, no Supreme Court justices, and we have only 10 out of 147 active Circuit Court judges and
30 out of 587 active district court judges. Those numbers are grossly below our proportion of the population. –“A Latina Judge’s Voice,”
Sonia Sotomayor
What is the author’s intended tone, based on her use of the word grossly?
one expressing humor
one expressing outrage
one expressing a feeling of joy
one expressing a neutral feeling
Sitting with his back against a tree a man with a face as grey as a new army blanket was serenely smoking a corn-cob pipe. The lieutenant wished to rush forward and inform him that he was dying.
