Slogans Protesting secret black meeting. (read it in a book)
<span>Thomas Paine was an English-American <u>ACTIVIST</u> who wrote pamphlets that influenced many people and were instrumental in starting the american revolution. He skillfully communicated the ideas of the revolution to everyone, from farmers to intellectuals.
Since the purpose of the paragraph is to inform the word that best fits in the blank is the word "activist," it means that this person is someone who is campaigning/informing people to bring about certain political or social changes.</span>
Here's an example sentence.
The girl laughed as her father, the "fitness expert", struggled to do a push up.
This shows sarcasm and irony because if her father calls himself a fitness expert, then why is he struggling to do one pushup. This is the opposite of being a fitness expert.
When someone hurts you, the desire for retribution is strong.
Retribution means punishment or revenge.