WANT BRAINLIEST? ANSWER THIS CORRECTLY. Which word from the passage best helps you understand the meaning of the word "famine"?

Besieged Paris was in the throes of famine. Even the sparrows on the roofs and the rats in the sewers were growing scarce. People were eating anything they could get.

A. Throes
B. Besieged
C. Scarce
D. Anything

As soon as hitler took over, he began persecuting jews. what does persecuting mean in this context

The following sentence contains what type of conjunction? he is not only a great player but also an exceptional coach

It warportant fact about the wounded soldiers is reflected by the repetition of the bolded sentences in the excerpts from "in another country" by ernest hemingway? a. it establishes the irony that, although the wounded soldiers have physically left the warfront, the war continues to haunt them psychologically it shows the gradual loss of hope and growing depression of the wounded soldiers and their need for distractions b. c. it establishes the wounded soldiers' determination to shun war and disobey military commands to return to the front after they recover. d. it shows the wounded soldiers' sadness and disappointment at the lack of gratitude from the people they risked their lives to protect e it shows the wounded soldiers' belief that the war would never end, even as thousands of soldiers were killed or wounded and sent to hospitals.