Now here she was in Dixieland, five hundred miles from her Ohio home, listening to the rattle and ping in the back of a taxicab, finally making her ascent up the mountain called Oglethorpe, her ears popping, the cabbie grumbling about how he wasn’t going to make a penny driving her all this way. What is the purpose of the onomatopoeia in the sentence?

Nature’s first green is gold, /Her hardest hue to hold. /Her early leaf’s a flower; /But only so an hour. Which description below characterizes time in a similar way?

Each successive generation seems to be making progress in changing attitudes when it comes to race. It doesn't mean we're in a post- racial society. It doesn't mean that racism is eliminated. Which sentence characterizes racial relations in a similar way?

If all of this seems like a great deal of trouble, think what’s at stake. We are faced with the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from the swamp to the stars. There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States. Which description characterizes STRUGGLE in a similar way?

Flipping someone the bird is a __________ gesture!

I approached my new boss ________________ because I was nervous to make a bad impression.

My cat was ______________when the new dog came into the neighborhood.

Those new shoes are actually a _____________ version of some old Jordans.

Although I have asked him multiple times to sit down and be quiet, he ______________ will get off task because he has no focus or drive.

You should really _____________ with your mother before you get that tattoo!

My dog looked at me ____________ when he finally learned how to swim in our creek.

At the polls on the 8th of November Lincoln was ____________re-elected president.

know it has _________________ value to you because your dad bought it new.

These are perfectly proficient musicians doing a perfectly proficient ___________ of an average pub rock band.

Some 50,000 in number, they spend a ____________existence wandering from pasture to pasture, living in low skin tents, their herds providing their food.

The ___________ wilderness is bounded only by the distant Red Sea.

His father, Thomas (1778-1851), was born in Rockingham (then Augusta) county, Virginia; he was hospitable, ___________, restless and unsuccessful.

Turkeys ___________ well, grow to a fine size and have flesh of tender quality.

She controlled her breathing to keep her __________ emotions from consuming her.

When he lifted his head, her thoughts were too __________ for her to focus on anything more than the sensations of the body against hers.

The local FBI had stepped into the picture and hustled action on the body, __________identified as Billie Wassermann—perhaps on an alphabetical basis only.