I believe this would be answered in a different subject, but luckily I know the answer! :D
Greater, Lower would be your answer.
Answer:
A corporate trust
Explanation:
A trust or corporate trust is a chain of businesses that have sizeable market power and cooperate with each other in different ways such as being members of a trade association, co-owning stock, or forming a conglomerate.
Thus, the correct answer is corporate trust because they do all those functions listed.
One of the words in the text that are connotative is the word Male
He uses it to describe the rain. A male rain connotes a thunderstorm that is loud and occurs in an unlikely scenario such as during the summer period. He also makes use of the word Female to connote light rains and drizzles.