None of the words are italiced, but based on context:
3. A pittance is a small amount.
4. To extinguish is to quench.
5. Disoriented means confused.
6. D. The speaker runs because, despite being an American citizen, his boss tells him to run and he was "on his time".
7. A. “Today, 2 percent of the Earth’s adult population owns more than 50 percent of its household wealth, and indigenous cultures are swallowed with the rapidity of a teenager gobbling a bag of potato chips.”
8. C. He uses the comparison to highlight the internal conflict he feels over his love-hate relationship with rap music, since both rap music and The Star-Spangled Banner speak postively of violence.
9. The roots of hip-hop go back to West Africa, but it was born in the streets of Harlem and the Bronx.
10. Gaunt means thin.
The correct answer is cause/effect.
Cause and effect is the principle of causality establishing <em>one event or action</em> <em>as the direct result of another</em>.
One event causes another to happen. A cause creates an effect.
Because I went to Washington (cause) and I visited many monuments and museums, I now have new insight into the history of the United States (effect).
The insight I have now (effect) happened because I went to Washington (cause).
The right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: "D. that the Dark will break the Circle before it can be formed." The statement that is not something the Rider says to scare Will at the Stanton house on Christmas morning is that the Dark will break the Circle before it can be formed<span>
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