Answer:
“This but served to make the god more wrathful. The blows came faster, heavier, more shrewd to hurt.”
Explanation:
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The purpose of the dictionary is all of the above EXCEPT to eliminate dialect and slang.
Answer:
The author writes with great scientific detail.
Explanation:
Simon Singh's "The Code Book" presents a detailed account of the history of cryptography through the tracing of its evolution and how secrecy came to be. The idea of a secret code for messages is what intrigues everyone and thus, this book delves into the how of such coded messages.
As seen in the given excerpt, the author Simon Singh states how scientific details such as <em>"p and q"</em> and the factoring of <em>"the public key, N"</em> are all processes to learn about Alice's private key. The inclusion of details such as <em>"check[ing] each prime number one at a time to see if it divides into N"</em> are all scientific approaches that will lead to the understanding of the private key.
Thus, the correct answer is the last or fourth option.
Answer:
Mr. Wolfshiem
Explanation:
The was extracted from The Great Gatsby a Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Nick and Gatsby saw Mr. Wolfshiem
Mr. Wolfshiem decided to leave Nick and Gatsby alone to talk after he (Mr. Wolfshiem) finished his lunch.
Though, Gatsby told him not to be in haste (to leave), Mr. Wolfshiem declined.
What Mr. Wolfshiem meant by being "from a different generation" is that, he was much older that Nick and Gatsby (he later on stated this, when he said he was 50 years old)
Mr. Wolfshiem appreciated that he was invited to lunch and he also made it known that he didn't really care to impose on Gatsby's chat with Nick about their discussion
