As soon as the bacon was well under way, and Millie, her lymphatic aid had been brisked up a bit, by a few deftly chosen words o
f contempt, she carried the cloth, plates, and glasses into the parlour and began to lay them with the utmost eclat.’ lymphatic mean as it is used in the sentence?
A) sluggish
B) cheerful
C) energetic
D) relating to a lymph node
Explanation: Someone sluggish is a person that moves slow, that is lacking energy or alertness. In the given excerpt we can see that the word "lymphatic" is used to give the idea of Millie being sluggish, we can know that because of the context clue "had been brisked up a bit, by a few deftly chosen words of contempt" this conveys that she was slow and lacking energy until she "brisked up." So the correct answer is option A.
<u>What Roosevelt says is necessary to make these things possible is </u><u>HIGHER TAXES! </u>
This is obvious because, not only does he emphasize this, but high taxes means more government spending money to fund medicare or scientific advancements.
The answer is D because an eye rhyme refers to words that look like they should rhyme but sound different. "Thrush" and "Bush" both end with "-ush" but the "u" is pronounced differently.
