7.Province
8.Money
9.Queens
10. Beautiful
11.Battle
12. Significant
13.Council
14. Battle Field
15.House
16. Wagon
17. Son
18. Officials
Empathy is important when giving humor because you have to also feel what that other person is feeling and how they’re going to take your joke. If you were upset and you started joking on someone that might tear them down even more. You have to know when it’s time to be serious and not to be.
I’m not sure if that’s the answer, I just wanted to try and help.
D. "his sister, who had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings so that she might be able to get a better position later on"
I had begun by tracing the Japanese characters with a pencil.
*begun is a past participle