Based on the context of each excerpt from N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain, choose the word that most closely matche
s the meaning of the bolded word. Tiles
pensive
fragile
antagonist
lobby
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Whatever they were in the mountains, they could be no more. However tenuous their well-being, however much they had suffered and would suffer again, they had found a way out of the wilderness.
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In order to consummate the ancient sacrifice—to impale the head of a buffalo bull upon the medicine tree—a delegation of old men journeyed into Texas, there to beg and barter for an animal from the Goodnight herd.
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My grandmother was spared the humiliation of those high gray walls by eight or ten years, but she must have known from birth the affliction of defeat, the dark brooding of old warriors.
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Some of them painted their faces and carried the scars of old and cherished enmities.
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1. If your underlined word is tenuous, then its synonym is <u>fragile.</u> Tenuous means very weak, so fragile is the correct answer. 2. Assuming the underlined word is barter, the synonym would be <u>lobby.</u> To barter means to haggle, and to lobby means to persuade, so these have similar meanings. 3. If the underlined word is brooding, then its synonym is <u>pensive</u>. Brooding means deep in thought, and pensive means thoughtful, meditative, so obviously their meanings are similar. 4. If the underlined word is enmities, then its synonym is <u>antagonist.</u> Enmity means hostility, rivalry, and antagonist is an enemy, so these would be synonymous.
Every written piece comprises a central theme or subject matter. The manner in which a writer approaches this theme and subject is the tone. In this specific short story the tone is formal, sometimes informal and ironic.
I think that the answer that your are looking at is Principles which are desirable norms, rules or values of a person or group of peopleThey are essential in the construction of people´s behaviour.