C. to gain understanding D. slowly to look for clues to the message.
The prefix spelling rule does apply to suffixes because it helps people understand the words better so they can read correctly instead of having to guess and get it wrong possibly.
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Answer: To put it bluntly, “Thanatopsis” is about death. The word thanatopsis itself derives from the Greek roots thanatos death and opsis sight. In other words, the poem always has death in its sights. One of the speaker's main goals seems simply to make death and its inevitability vivid for the poem's readers.
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