Determining Word Meaning Using Context Clues - Tutorial - Level
Choose the correct meaning of the highlighted word as
it is used in the sentence.
For example, when we read the word yogurt on a
list, it may seem abstract, and we may not
necessarily come up with a pa ularly vivid image
in our minds. Visualizing an actual yogurt, however,
results in a concrete, memorable thing.
adj. made of hard building material
an)
n. a solid, rigid mass
adj. real, definite
n. an artificial stonelike material

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion

Something you may do if the weather's nice on sunday. -something you might not want to do this evening. -something you could go on aaturday evening. -something you could wear to a party. -somebody you might see in the next couple of days. -a subject you could study at college or university. -somewhere you might go on holiday .

In  the earth is precious, chief seattle says that man did not “weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it.” what attitude is he implicitly criticizing by saying this?