Your incorrect answers were 3 and 4.
For number 3, the correct answer is b. This is because not language is not necessarily oral (i.e. there are written languages).
For number 4, the correct answer is b. Although comparative linguistics is a branch of historical linguistics, comparative linguistics is specifically concerned with comparing the linguistics of one person/place from the next.
Inexorable- Kind; Nice
Relentless- Compassionate; Kind
Impatient- Patient; Unconcerned
Yielding- Hard; Obstinate
Rational- Unrational; Careless
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Answer:
In the given passage, the word puncheon refers to a smoothed log used during summer time as this is cool.
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This extract, taken from Twain's Huckleberry Finn, is trying to create a scene, where the protagonist enters the church and finds a dog (hog) or two inside the church. He is trying to say that dogs like smooth logs to sleep on as they become very cool during the night on any summer day. Therefore, the word puncheon, here, describes a smoothed log.