A dividend is an amount returned to a policyowner out of an insurance company's surplus funds. In a practical sense it is a return of premiums that exceed the insurer's expenses and mortality experience. Only certain types of insurance policies produce dividends.
This is called using context clues.
We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.
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Capitalism is an economic system in which individual people make most of the decisions
The 3rd answer. It develops mystery by suggesting Ezra and his aunt have a complex relationship.
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