Fragile - tenuous: Whatever they were in the mountains, they could be no more. However tenuous their well-being, however much they had suffered and would suffer again, they had found a way out of the wilderness.
Tenuous means fragile or delicate. After the people found their way out of the wilderness, they were most likely fragile from a lack of proper care and nutrition.
Lobby - beg and barter: In order to consummate the ancient sacrifice—to impale the head of a buffalo bull upon the medicine tree—a delegation of old men journeyed into Texas, there to beg and barter for an animal from the Goodnight herd.
The verb lobby means to persuade. In this passage the old men are trying to persuade someone for an animal.
Pensive - brooding: My grandmother was spared the humiliation of those high gray walls by eight or ten years, but she must have known from birth the affliction of defeat, the dark brooding of old warriors.
Pensive means to be deep in thought. Brooding also means to be deep in thought but usually over something that has a negative outcome. The person brooding usually wishes to change what has happened.
Antagonist - Enmities: Some of them painted their faces and carried the scars of old and cherished enmities.
Enmities is another word for something that is hated, just like an enemy. An antagonist goes against a person or thing and is often hated or strongly disliked so this would be the best choice.
Answer:
Inferring to what Allan does before he makes his cluster for writing, I believe he is most likely to be picture smart and word smart.
Explanation:
Picture smart:
Since Allan brainstorms his ideas and gets creative before coming up with the final result for his writing, he must be picture smart. He is able to think of the, "big picture," before he even starts his writing.
Word Smart
Since Allan gets ready to start to write, he may have an eternal or initial sense of what to write, and might use his words for his writings. He makes his "cluster," of writing, which can both be determined as both negative and positive. But in this case, I believe he is using this word in a positive way, forming a wide variety, or a big cluster of imagination in his head to place in his writing.
I hope I helped! :)
The themes of compassion and community intersect in the novel, during the part where scout comes to the court house where Atticus was and tells Atticus something and she tells the community some stuff and they don't kill the prisoner.
