What bolded word (put "" around the word)
Substitution of a verb and exclusion of an article.
Answer:
The drill goes on for three days. One day the workers seem excited and suddenly a whoosh of water shoots into the air. Nya is stunned to see that it is new water. Everyone cheers and a woman sings a song of celebration. Nya frowns, though; the water is very muddy.
Explanation:
Salva met a lot of workers there, including Michael from Ireland. Salva had always wanted to learn English but it wasn’t until Michael that he learned. Michael helped him learn to read and to play volleyball.
One day a rumor begins spreading through the camp, that about three thousand boys will get to go to America. The rumor is confirmed, and people can talk about nothing else. After a few months, a list is posted for people making it to the interview step. Most of the boys are younger than Salva.
That would probably the way the sentence flows and the tone
"Mighty” reflects how powerful and influential the speeches were to Douglass in a way that “great” would not.
<em>Mighty</em> means possessing power or authority. These elements are not exactly part of the definition of the word <em>great</em>, which simply means large, remarkable, or predominant. With <em>mighty</em>, there is a connotation of significance and impact. Indeed, the narrator tells us that these speeches fascinated him ("unabated interest") and influenced his thinking ("they gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul").