Rising action? I'm pretty sure that's the answer. but I was a little confused at what you were trying to get across.
Significant. Fractional sounds like "fraction," which is typically meaning a value less than one, but not quite zero. AKA, very small.
The opposite of a very small change would be a very big change. Which is what a significant change is.
Answer:
direct and sad
Explanation:
it sounds sad so probably that
During our passage, I first saw flying fishes, which surprised me very much; they used frequently to fly across the ship, and many of them fell on the deck. I also now first saw the use of the quadrant; I had often with astonishment seen the mariners make observations with it, and I could not think what it meant. They at last took notice of my surprise; and one of them, willing to increase it, as well as to gratify my curiosity, made me one day look through it. The clouds appeared to me to be land, which disappeared as they passed along. This heightened my wonder; and I was now more persuaded than ever, that I was in another world, and that every thing about me was magic
Answer choice 4: “to distinguish between word meanings” because a thesaurus is the same as a dictionary, accept it haves the meanings of words so, you’d use a thesaurus if you had no idea what a word meant and needed to find what i meant go there and find synonyms. you are looking more than just a word, ex; augment; to make or became greater as in size; synonyms; quantity,strength, increase.
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