D. look up the unfamiliar word in a dictionary to check its meaning.
Context clues will always provide hints with regard to helping readers figure out what a word or term means. However, after figuring out what a word means based upon context clues (which should only be considered the first step), what you should do is look up the word in question. This should be done so you could check your interpretation as well as help you commit the new word or term to memory.
Significant. Fractional sounds like "fraction," which is typically meaning a value less than one, but not quite zero. AKA, very small.
The opposite of a very small change would be a very big change. Which is what a significant change is.
The author portrays Editha as fickle and liable to be swayed by popular beliefs. From the beginning of the story, she is presented as a person who lacks individual insight and perception. Even while trying to convince George that he should go to war, she has no words of her own but simply parrots lines from magazines. The author builds her character along the same lines throughout the story. When George tries to reason with her, she refuses to be contradicted by saying that the moral implications are insignificant in matters of patriotism.
The author uses various opportunities to portray Editha’s lack of individualism, as when she says, "I am yours, for time and eternity—time and eternity." The author also reveals her inconsistency when saying, "She liked the words; they satisfied her famine for phrases." Toward the end of the story, we see Editha clinging to her view of the war even after the death of her fiancé, whom she had convinced to join the war.
Plato
Mercutio<span> responds with a long </span>speech about<span> Queen Mab of the fairies, who visits people's dreams. The </span>speech<span> begins as a flight of fancy, but </span>Mercutio<span> becomes almost entranced by it, and a bitter, fervent strain creeps in. Romeo steps in to stop the </span>speech<span> and calm </span>Mercutio<span> down.</span>