Major Kovaloff believes that witchcraft is what took his nose.
He knows a woman that wanted to marry her daughter to him, but he had often rejected. He thinks that to get her revenge, she "must have hired
some witches to spirit it away," which is the only way he could think his nose could have possibly disappeared.
A) The caustic, bitter remarks about the company CEO in the newspaper were obviously slanderous.
The word slanderous is defined as malicious and false. Caustic is defined as sarcastic which in turn can be false and similarly, bitter is defined as angry and hurt which in turn can be malicious.
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A context clue occurs when you don't know a word, or one of its meanings, but the entire text, or another word in the same sentence, presents you with a context that allows you to understand what the unknown word represents.
In the case of your question, you should look for a word in the sentence that is related to the word "mission" and that is contextualizing it. Esssa is the context clue.
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Based solely on this sentence? Best definition if we're only using this is...
A person who is authoritarian ('he alone'), blunt ('uses the literal meanings of words') and forcibly supresses others ('will not listen to others', 'makes decisions on behalf of others').
Not too far off the mark, but there's a lot more to fascism than is shown here.
Thoughts and feelings of multiple characters