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This is an example of an idiom.
<span>As the door slowly creaked open, Jessie peered carefully into the vast darkness, holding her breath.
The "slowness" of the creaking door and the "vast darkness" add a weight to the sentence unlike the others. </span>
Answer:
A. first, highest in rank or importance
Explanation:
The word <em>principal </em>can mean a crossbar, a sum of money, the highest authority in an organization and something that comes first in order of importance.
In the example sentence, <em>principal </em>is an adjective which modifies the noun it follows, <em>objective</em>. Thus, the right definition of a word is the one that is more suitable according to the word category and context that surrounds it. Actually, the sentence means that the main purpose or goal of the club is to raise money to get new band uniforms.
Answer:
' Miss Watson claims to live her life well so she can go to heaven. The irony is that, despite her claims of goodness, she owns slaves. She even plans to sell Jim down the river, away from his family, though she has always promised him she never would.
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