Read the excerpt from "Should we abolish the Electoral College?" “The outdated Electoral College system can create an imbalance of power that could negatively affect your life and it should be changed.”

What is another word the author could have chosen that would have a similar connotation to outdated?

Old-fashioned

Vintage

Retro

Obsolete

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is