Read this sentence from “a four-hundred-year-old woman” and answer the question.

my characters can, i hope, transcend the straitjacket of simple psychologizing.

the author has turned the noun psychology into a verb in this sentence by adding the suffixes ize and ing. psychology means "the study of the human mind." what, then, does the verb form most likely mean in this context?

a: to make naive speculations
b: to study with the mind
c: to analyze rigidly
d: to investigate wishfully

When should readers refer to a dictionary instead of relying on context clues? select all that apply. when they have timeeach unfamiliar word they findwhen the surrounding words are unfamiliarwhen an unfamiliar word appears frequently

Buck did not cry out. he did not check himself, but drove in upon spitz, shoulder to shoulder, so hard that he missed the throat. they rolled over and over in the powdery snow. spitz gained his feet almost as though he had not been overthrown, slashing buck down the shoulder and leaping clear. twice his teeth clipped together, like the steel jaws of a trap, as he backed away for better footing, with lean and lifting lips that writhed and snarled. read this passage. explain what the conflict shows about buck and spitz.

How many lynching took place in the south between 1877 and 1950