Why does the narrator of the war of the worlds use such precise and scientific language? a. to show that the narrator is an average person b. to explain the story from the martians' point of view c. to establish the story's credibility d. to make the reader question the narrator's intelligence

In this excerpt from "colonialism in the united states" by henry c. lodge, which word is closest in meaning to the word indelibly? long after the world to which it belonged has vanished, a habit of thought will live on, indelibly imprinted upon a race or nation, like the footprint of some extinct beast or bird upon a piece of stone.