Answer:
The correct answer is: to send.
Explanation:
The word root <em>miss </em>(and its other variant <em>mit</em>) comes from Latin and it means <em>to send</em>. In English, we have many examples which show us the meaning of this root, like in the following examples:
dismiss - to send someone out
remit - to send back
transmissible - sent across
mission - kind of duty which a person is sent out to perform
The first one. It shows a collective group following a trend and implying that the reader should follow suit.<span>“America has fallen in love with Morning Bran Cereal. Isn’t it time you fall in love too?</span>
I think that a big part of the suspense in "The Pit and Pendulum" comes from two sources.
The first is the unknown. The reader has no idea why the protagonist has been arrested and sentenced. The opening paragraphs have him in and out of conscious thought all while hallucinating. We don't know who he is or what he has done to deserve punishment. Once he is in his cell, the unknown continues.
In December of 2013, the bananas expired (OR) The bananas expired in December of 2013.