1.samantha is a runner, but she never comes in first place when she races. this year she has made first place her goal. she is pretty fast, but she has trouble exerting enough force in her muscles to push through to the finish line ahead of everyone else. which skill should she work on to reach her goal?

reaction time
speed
power
balance

2.improving your skill-related components of fitness will you perform in an activity.

comfortably
better
smarter
evenly

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .