Benjamin Franklin-poor Richards Almanack
Charles Brockden Brown-Edgar Huntly
Thomas Paine -common sense
Washington Irving-The sketchbook of Geoffrey
Answer:
- Aristocracy (aristos - excellent; kratos - rule).
- Democrat (from democracy, demo - people; kratos - rule).
- Diplomat (from diplomacy, diploma - two; kratos - rule).
- Monocrat (from monocracy, mono - one; kratos - rule).
Many words that we use in English have Greek roots. This is usually because many Greek concepts (especially those of science, philosophy and art) were adopted by the Romans, and then passed on to Romance languages. These words then passed to English due to French influence.
The word that could fit the gap is definitely a possessive pronoun such as their, used because it refers to the previous pronoun them
Courage is important because it gives you a chance to be outspoken