<span>To support an argument by showin that because other courts have made similar decisions, the decision in the current case must be logical</span>
Since puerile and mature are opposites the best answer is d since moribund which means inactive compared to it's opposite, lively.
<span>To the speaker of the poem, the cookies represented coming together. The cookies stuck out in the speakers mind because before everyone took them, the speaker was looking at all the people's differences. After the woman pulled handed out the cookies, the speaker's mind was opened to the similarities everyone shared.</span>