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Answer: B. adjective
Explanation:
The part of speech refers to the syntactic function of a word. Arid is an adjective which means that it is primarily a modifier for nouns or phrases acting as nouns.
For instance, ''<em>the Sahara desert is arid.''</em> Arid here modifies Sahara desert by letting the reader know that the Sahara desert lacks rainfall and is too dry to support agriculture.
Explanation:
Dixiecrat, also called States’ Rights Democrat, member of a right-wing Democratic splinter group in the 1948 U.S. presidential election organized by Southerners who objected to the civil rights program of the Democratic Part