Answer:
A. first, highest in rank or importance
Explanation:
The word <em>principal </em>can mean a crossbar, a sum of money, the highest authority in an organization and something that comes first in order of importance.
In the example sentence, <em>principal </em>is an adjective which modifies the noun it follows, <em>objective</em>. Thus, the right definition of a word is the one that is more suitable according to the word category and context that surrounds it. Actually, the sentence means that the main purpose or goal of the club is to raise money to get new band uniforms.
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[She] had kindled the callow fancy of the most idle and shiftless of all
the village lads, and had conceived for this Howard Carpenter one of
those absurd and extravagant passions which a handsome country boy of
twenty one sometimes inspires in a plain, angular, spectacled woman of
thirty. (Willa Cather, "A Wagner Matinee")
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Answer:
B.
Explanation:
I can see how this might be confusing as predicament would also work, but emergency is the better fit in this sentence.
