The underlined words are : "allay the discontent". To Allay means to enervate or reduce. Discontentment simply means dissatisfaction. Hence the "following alternatives to the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable: is "justify the gratification" (Option A). Note that this is a text of knowledge of synonyms.
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Answer:
I believe the line from this passage that describes the changed feelings of the narrator is <u>"All that had so long engaged my attention suddenly grew despicable."</u>
Explanation:
The narrator, Victor Frankenstein, is describing, in this passage, the change of feelings he has undergone concerning his work. According to him, he is no longer interested in natural history, seeing it as a "would-be science" that cannot bring any "real knowledge". He went from being excited about it to disdaining it completely. That's why he took up to working with mathematics and its "secure foundations". The line that best describes the changed feelings is, "All that had so long engaged my attention suddenly grew despicable."
Answer:
taxi, Empire State Building, corner, Fifth Avenue, at(?) West 54th Street.
Explanation:
Well a noun is a person place or thing. Street numbers are nouns as well. A is an indefinite article. I am not a 100% sure this is correct but from my perspective thats what it is. At is either a preposition or a noun. In this situation, I believe it is a noun.
It is a metaphor because the sentence is comparing two different things without using the word "as" or "like".
Don’t understand what you mean by diagrams worked very late