Note: I found this question online and saw that the italicized words are "speculate", "strenuous", "exaggerate", and "vicinity".
Answer:
The sentence that best uses a synonym as a context clue to clarify the meaning of the word is option D. I know I left my laptop in the vicinity of the playing field, which is near the bleachers.
Explanation:
Options A through C do not present any context clues to clarify the meaning of the italicized words. The only possible option left is D, in which we have the word "vicinity". "Vicinity" means the area near or around something. In the sentence, we have the very synonym of "vicinity" being used as a context clue for its meaning when the speaker says, "which is near the bleachers." Therefore, even if the reader does not know what "vicinity" means, he can infer the meaning through the context clue.
Answer:
Rosenberg argued that "Romeo and Juliet—a play about children—is full of terrible, deeply childish ideas about love." Juliet, Rosenberg reminds us, is 13. If you cast someone that age in the role now, the result is queasy. If you cast someone older, you end up with an adult actor behaving like she's a tween.
Explanation:
D. To allow the audience to recognize the reason they are here today
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Answer:
In general, it possible to state that there is nothing fair about the lottery tradition in this case
Explanation:
In <em>The Lottery </em>by Shirley Jackson, to "win" the lottery means that someone in the family will be sentenced to death being stoned until the end. At the en of the story, after Bill Hutchinson draws a black dot in the first round of the game, which means that someone in his family will die in a really cruelty way. The real controversial part in the story, is that if it was not this family another one had to be, the practice itself is so cruel, no matter who the "winner" is. Someone has to die anyway.
Answer:
What is the best thing about Switzerland?
I don't know but the flag is a big plus.
