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The adverse (√d-vûrs') effects of this drug, including dizziness, nausea, and headaches, have caused it to be withdrawn from the market. In context, the closest meaning of adverse:
What is harmful.
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"Don't scrunch up like that Huckleberry--set up straight"
Who is Miss Watson?
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Huck is torn between the values of society and his own values, but eventually comes to believe that Jim should be treated the same as anyone else.
What is "I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks do for their'n."
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the story's narrator
Who is Huckleberry Finn?
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Huck about Jim not waking him up to take his watch: "I went to sleep, and Jim didn't call me when it was my turn."
What is Jim cares for Huck as if he was his own child. OR Jim protects Huck. OR Jim acts like a father to Huck. OR something similar.
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Many of us have ambivalent feelings about our politicians,admiring but also distrusting them. In context, ambivalent means:
What is mixed?
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"If I catch you about that school again, I'll tan you good. First you know, you'll get religion too."
Who is Pap?
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Jim teaches Huck lessons on how to be a better person.
What is "Dat truck deh is trash; en trash is what people is that puts dirt on de head of dey frens' end makes em ashamed."
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Jim believes that the following is bad luck
What is touching a rattlesnake skin
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"On the table in the middle of the room was a kind of a lovely crockery basket that had apples and oranges and peaches and grapes piled up in it, which was much redder and yellower and prettier than real ones is, but they weren't real because you could see where pieces had got chipped off."
What is people often try to look one way, but are different on the inside. Society forces people into being "fake."
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I prefer the occasional disturbance of ear-splitting thunder to the incessant dripping of our kitchen sink. In context, incessant means
What is nonstop?
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"Dat truck there is trash; en trash is what people is that puts dirt on de head of dey frend' end makes em ashamed."
Who is Jim?
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Although we expect parents to want the best for their children, Pap does not want Huck to succeed in life. He wants to keep Huck subservient (like a servant, lower than) himself.
What is ". . . if I catch you about that school again, I'll tan you good. First you know you'll get religion too."
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This person eloped with Sophia Grangerford
Who is Harney Shepherdson?
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"If any real lynching's going to be done, it will be done in the dark, Southern fashion."
Society has no fundamental sense of justice and should be ashamed of it's actions. People are inherently cowardly in their actions because somewhere, at heart, they know they are doing the wrong thing. Real justice would be served in the daylight, above board, and with honor. "Fake" justice happens at night, hidden, in shame.
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What context clues in the following sentence help you to identify the meaning of nocturnal? (2) Nocturnal creatures, such as bats and owls, have highly developed senses that enable them to function in the dark.
What are "bats and owls," and "function in the dark?"
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I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their'n
Who is Huck?
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Huck questions the value of society. He is frustrated by the rules society places on people and how people treat each other, so he finds solace in being alone with Jim.
What is "We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft."
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Huck had a crush on this person
Who is Mary Jane Wilks?
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"Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there."
What is Huck has a different set of values from society. He views the religion as ridiculous and would rather live by a system that allows him to feel free.
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The Chinese government provides incentives for married couples to have only one child. For example, couples with one child get financial help and free medical care Name a context clue and define incentives
What is "financial help and free medical care." Incentives=encouragements
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"Take this six thousand, and invest it for me and my sisters any way you want to . . . "
Who is Mary Jane?
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Huckleberry Finn values freedom over society. He finds society to be stifling and does not understand why respectable people act the way they do.
What is " I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied."
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Two practical jokes Huck played on Jim
What are putting a rattlesnake in his sleeping bag and convincing him he dreamed being separated in the fog?
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"It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a n----; but I done it, and I warn't never sorry for it afterwards."
What is Huck is conflicted by whether he should live by society's values or his own. He finds that some of the rules he has been taught by society contradict what seems to be “right," but as he evolves throughout the book, he begins to live by his own value system.