Which pair of words has similar denotations but different connotations?
a. vivid, bright
b. annoying, irritating
c. brave, courageous
d. cautious, timid

Iopened the door quietly,then stood in the doorway rewrite using ..ing participle

What point is the author trying to make by comparing the travel times of the first transcontinental railroad and the first transcontinental flight?

Read and key the following paragraph. 1"the final phase of franklin's public service is themost spectacular. 2after his return to america he waselected to the second continental congress and served withjefferson and john adams on the committee which drafted thedeclaration of independence. 3then, in 1776, he wasappointed one of the three commissioners to seek military andnaval assistance from france. 4for nearly ten years pariswas his center of operations, and, in large part because ofhis personal popularity, he secured the much-needed supportof france and spain and eventually negotiate thetreaty of paris (1783), by which england recognized americanindependence. 5when he returned to america in 1785 he wasold and ill, yet he found strength to serve as a delegate tothe constitutional convention, and to continue his work withmany humanitarian and scientific societies." type the key words for sentence's 2. 3. 4. 5.