Type the words that have the meaning of completing something.
(there are only two)
chastisement punishment
complement something that completes or makes perfect
confident feeling very sure about something
covenant a formal, solemn, and binding agreement; contract
elegant of good quality; select
eminent conspicuous; prominent; famous
entanglement the state of being involved in a twisted or complicated issue
hesitant uncertain; wavering
imminent ready to take place
impudent offensively bold; arrogantly insensitive to others; marked by casual disrespect
indifferent showing little concern or care about something
intolerant refusing to accept or put up with something
pertinent relevant; highly significant
petulant unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered; insolent or rude in speech or behavior
recalcitrant obstinately defiant of authority or restraint
recreant cowardly; unfaithful to duty

reliant dependent
resilient capable of withstanding shock; recovering easily
significant important
somnolent inducing sleep; inclined to sleep
subservient in a subordinate position
supplement something which completes or adds to something
transplant to move something from one place to another
variant something which changes or varies from the norm
vigilant diligently watchful

How dose religion today compared to the puritans idea of religion

Read this passage from william faulkner's the sound and the fury: i says no i never had university advantages because at harvard they teach you how to go for a swim at night without knowing how to swim and at sewanee they dont even teach you what water is. i says you might send me to the state university; maybe i'll learn how to stop my clock with a nose spray and then you can send ben to the navy i says or to the cavalry anyway, they use geldings in the cavalry. which best describes the narrator's tone in this passage? a. bitter b. angry c. sarcastic d. all of the above

Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence in this excerpt from abraham lincoln's second inaugural address conveys that he wanted the us civil war to end as soon as possible? neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just inging their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh" if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether." reset next