Read the sentences. then, use inferences to answer the questions. the curmudgeonly man was not well liked in the neighborhood. he often yelled for no reason at kids who were passing by. which word best describes the meaning of curmudgeonly? which word is a good synonym for curmudgeonly?

curmudgeonly can  be defined as a grumpy behaviour. Someone who has a bad temper. We could replace curmudgeonly by a synonym like grumpy or bad-tempered or simply mean.

Explanation:

Curmudgeonly? What is that?

If you have not seen this word before, then the meaning may be not very clear at the fisrst sentence (The curmudgeonly man was not well liked...), but the second sentence give us a better idea of what it is. Yelling at kids for no reason is an aggresive behaviour that help us understand why he was not well liked. We can infer he was not only friendly with kids, but basically with nobody in the neighborhood. This is why we can conclude the word curmudgeonly can be seen as a word to describe an unfriendly and bad-tempered behaviour.

Ok. Can we use a synonym?

Sure we can. We can make this text more accessible to readers using more common words to replace curmudgeonly. We can use grumpy (like the grumpy cat meme), bad-tempered or also mean if we want to stress He, the neighbour, is a bad person because of his aggresive behaviour.

overnment is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.

b. vast setting

explanation:

an epic is a poem of heroic proportions; it can't be short or focus on simple daily life event. it cannot be written with a casual tone as it narrates some heroic deeds of legendary figures.    

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