It suggests a satirical and simple proposal to the problem starving Ireland faced: the lack of food to feed the people.
Of course, the entire modest proposal was that parents eat and sell their children as food and the idea was meant as satire, meaning to be considered with a grain of salt and not seriously (kind of like a really dark joke).
''Modest'' means that the proposal was obvious and simple in the eyes of the author Jonathan Swift but not necessarily in the eyes of others. ''Proposal'' means the general answer to the problem Swift was answering.
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It can cause distrust.
Explanation:
If you are constantly chekcing your teens phone they will start to grow distant from you because you are invading their privacy and they sometimes want to have secrets and they will tell you if they want to. They will start to get angrier and more frustrated with you and will get agitated when you ask questions like "What are you doing?" or "Give me your phone."
Conflicts arose between China and England over opium trade.
Pretentious is synonymous to C. SHOWY.
You are pretentious when you attempt to impress people by affecting greater importance or talent than is actually possessed.
Other synonyms of pretentious aside from showy are:
ostentatious, overambitious, pompous, grandiose, extravagant, flamboyant, overblown, magniloquent, and many more.
absurd is synonymous to foolish or unreasonable
argumentative is synonymous to quarrelsome, contrary
annoyed is synonymous to irritated, irk
English Empire was something which british people have taken over in the past centuries.
