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I believe your answer should be D, "by using evidence from someone who is an expert in a given area"
The paragraph is missing a period at the end.
Since "Growing flowers is one of my happiest childhood memories." is the topic sentence, then the rest of the paragraph should be supporting THAT statement.
The topic sentence is not necessarily a HOOK, more like a regular statement. A good hook would be something including a sound, a question, or using descriptive words.
According to the sentences shared from The Destructors, the word that best describes Trevor is <u>peculiar</u>.
From those sentences we can't tell that Trevor's silence is because he is cautious or introspective. Nothing in those lines tells us any other thing for us to understand that he is one of those two things.
On the other hand, we can know from the sentence "When he said 'Trevor' it was a statement of a fact, not as it would have been with the others a statement of shame or defiance" that he didn't mean to be threatening, so the choice left is C.
Peculiar, as an adjective, means that someone clearly distinguishes from the rest for some personal characteristic. Trevor's attitude is clearly different from the rest of the gang and it is something that distinguishes him.
The answer is context clues. This is because you're using the clues from the other words (sentences/paragraphs) to answer the definition of the word.
You should be writing a descriptive essay
