Which sentence uses a synonym context clue to help the reader understand the word gangly
A. The basketball team was the biggest group of gangly, skinny guys
I'd ever seen
B. Everyone on the team was gangly, not a single one was fat!
C. The guys on the team were so gangly they could have hidden
behind fence posts.
D. No matter how much they ate every day, the members of the team
stayed gangly

A. The basketball team was the biggest group of gangly, skinny guys

I'd ever seen

Explanation:

A synonym context clue are those hints which are given about the words nearest in meaning to words that help a reader get the meaning of the words.

Therefore, the sentence that uses a synonym context clue to help the reader understand the word "gangly" is option A.

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."

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