Answer:
This seems to be cut off, but I have corrected the parts that are present.
Today Isaac and Evelyn RETURN from their trip to their grandparents, and their parents are looking forward to seeing them.
Answer: Victor lingers in his homeroom so he can be near Teresa.
Explanation:
The rising action of a story refers to the evens that preclude the climax. They are events that keep building up the conflict in the story until they boil out in the climax.
In the story Seventh Grade, Victor is a boy who really like a girl named Teresa and has promised to himself that she will be his girlfriend that year. When he went to his homeroom to begin the semester and discovers that Teresa is in his homeroom as well, he lingers so he can be near her and leave at the same time she is leaving so that they can make contact.
The answer would be contraction
It is being used as an adjective in the sentence, so the definition is,
<span>"(of an action) convenient and practical, although possibly improper or immoral."
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The meaning of the word "expedient" most likely means practical or convenient