Answer:
What are they answer choices ?
Explanation:
If I had to guess I'd say infer or use contex clues
The word harbingers as it is used in this excerpt is a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another.
Answer:
Explanation:
Seven
Don't get caught believing it is goodest. Good is irregular. Much as I like goodest, the answer is best.
Eight
only if you are using earnest as an adjective, can you have earnest in a comparative sense. earnester would be one choice. A better one in my opinion is more earnest.
Sam is more earnest than Albert.
Sam is earnester than Albert.
The spell check underlines earnester. I think it's right to do so. This is an example of tortured language.
Nine
Narrowest.
Ten
nicer.
Sam is nicer than Albert.
Answer:
b
Explanation:
Fog is a figure of speech for confusion I believe.
Answer:
D. encompassed
Explanation:
This is the excerpt from James Joyce's "Araby".
The word bazaar might also be confusing, so let's just say it's a kind of open market.
So, we have a boy who rushes into that market and finds him self in a hall around which is a gallery with lots of empty, closed stalls.
That can be enough to infer the meaning of the word "girded" which is "surrounded", "encompassed" or "encircled".
