Approximately one-third of the world's population lives in ___ poverty and goes to bed hungry every night. A. salient B. abject C. voluble D. discourse

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Answer 1

Answer: Approximately one-third of the world's population lives in "abject" poverty and goes to bed hungry every night, with "abject" being serious or severe.

Answer 2

Answer: Abject means horrible, or bad. so B. "Approximately one-third of the world's population lives in Abject poverty and goes to bed hungry every night"

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Which sentence uses a verb that agrees with its pronoun subject? a. Is I going with you to the grocery store?
b. You children has to wash your hands after playing outside.
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The answer is D. For A to work it would have to be "Am I going with you to the grocery store? For B to work it would have to be "You children have to wash your hands after playing outside." For C to work it would have to be "Don't you want to know whats inside the box?" Generally the best way to solve these problems is through process of elimination, just so that you're sure that your answer is correct.

The murder or abandonment of baby girls is called _________

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Answer:

Infantcide and Child abandonment, respectively.

Explanation:

Infanticide is the masculine noun that indicates the voluntary act of killing a child. Typically, infanticide is committed against a newborn (girl or boy). Infanticide involves killing a baby during or shortly after childbirth, being influenced by the puerperal state. On the other hand, child abandonment happens when parents or legal guardians abandon their children, usually newborns, without any care and security, leaving the child to own luck.

Both cases are crimes, passives and punishments and even imprisonment.

The murder or abandonment of baby girls is called infantcide..

The novel Les Misérables was written by

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It was written by Victor Hugo.

Where in the dialogue should there be a paragraph break or paragraph breaks? “Look at those clouds,” Jeff commented. “It’s about to rain.” “I agree. The sky is practically black,” Erika said.

Choose all answers that are correct.

A.
after the word rain

B.
after the word commented

C.
after the word agree

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From the choices provided, page break must be inserted:

A. after the word rain

Page break is a single line or space between sentences which convey different ideas. It is used to separate the sentences so as to emphasize its point.

Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.In a smithy

one sees a white-hot axehead or an adze
plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam–
the way they make soft iron hale and hard—:
just so that eyeball hissed around the spike.

The use of the epic simile in this excerpt helps the reader understand

A) that the Cyclops only has one eye.
B) how brutal Odysseus and his men are.
C) the size of the wooden spear.
D) how hot the spear actually is.

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The answer is D: how hot the spear actually is.

An epic simile, or Homeric simile, is a rhetorical figure that compares, in a relatively lengthy manner, a strange or unfamiliar occurrence with a familiar event or thing. It is usually presented during moments of turmoil and it helps the reader reflect calmly on the scene being depicted.

In the excerpt above, the comparison is made between the blinding of the Cyclops with a hot spike, and how an iron spear is made by first making it hot and they quickly cooling it in order to mold it properly, just like the hot spear used by Odysseus cooled off as it entered the Cyclops eye.

There are many epic similes used in Odysseus. Epic simile or Homeric simile means elaborate comparison of the events which is uncovered later. In these lines Homer describes making of spear - how it is made and how it is hot that when spear is made its warmth could affect the eyes.

Define the following word using the meaning of the suffix.sympathize

A. full of sympathy
B. treat with sympathy
C. without sympathy
D. quality of sympathy

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B. treat with sympathy

The suffix -ize made the word sympathy a verb.

Answer:

Explanation:

to sympathize is to treat something or someone with sympathy just like to empathyse is to treat something or someone with empathy

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