Answer:
The sense of touch.
Explanation:
The word "gritty" refers to something being granular, grainy, which speaks most to the sense of touch. People can't (or shouldn't) eat/taste sand, they can see it but they can't necessarily tell it's gritty from its appearance (since sand is so fine), you can't smell something grainy or sand, and you can't smell sand either, especially not its texture.
To find out whether sand is gritty or not, one has to touch it - therefore, the sentence most appeals to the sense of touch.
Answer:
I think... The edict upheld Protestants in freedom of conscience and permitted them to hold public worship in many parts of the kingdom, though not in Paris.
Annihilate and decimate both mean to destroy something or someone, but annihilate means to destroy something as a whole, and at a bigger scale, while decimate doesn't have to mean destroying the whole thing.
Eradicate and massacre are both violent words with the intent to convey destruction, but eradicate is a more general term, as massacre is meant to simple destroy/kill a large group of people.
