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to understand the text and also to build confidence in yourself
Equivocal words E. have more than one commonly accepted definition.
Equivocal means ambiguous - that means that a word can mean several different things at the same time. What that particular word is going to mean in a sentence or a text is going to depend on the context. Without the context, it will be difficult to decide what the actual meaning of that particular word is because it could mean so many things.
B. It goes from sleepy to frantically busy for a short time.
Explanation:
In Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain details the narrator’s coming of age through the process of learning to be a steamboat pilot, which fulfilled his boyhood dream.
Twain describes Hannibal, Missouri, sometimes as a village and sometimes as a town. It is a very rural, sleepy, quaint place.
He says, 'And the fragrant town drunkard asleep in the shadow of them', 'but nobody to listen to the peaceful lapping of the wavelets against them,' 'a white town drowsing in the sunshine of summer's morning, the streets empty.'
Answer: Today was hotter than we thought it would be.
Explanation: Then is used in a sentence to show a sequence or something afterwards. Than is manipulated in sentences to show the second caparison in a sentence. It is also utilized to show difference.
A or B, this one’s a bit difficult