A. Uses the vocab word incorrectly. ‘Exploit’ means to take advantage of which does not make sense in the context of the sentence (the correct word for that sentence is probably ‘explosion’).
B. Is correct because ‘esteem’ means to hold respect for.
To have gone through hardships and troubles
The answer Will be Possibly A which is ‘imagination and reality ‘
The answer is 2.Stan is a voracious reader, an expressive writer, and a skillful painter because in a parallel structure all of the ideas hold the same amount of importance. For example, in this sentence the ideas are that Stan is a reader, a writer, and lastly a painter.
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