My teacher heaped on me for my research project about the civil rights movement. preys praise praize prays

I believe answer is: Praise

Preys mean something or someone that being hunted by others, praize does not have specific meaning, while prays refers to the act of communicating with a certain type of diety.

Praise means the act of expressing admiration toward a certain things, which is the most suitable for the sentence above.

answer: musical connotation

leonard b. meyer (1918-2007) was an american composer, author and philosopher. his work emotion and meaning in music is perhaps the first major treatise on music. it is a philosophical and psychological work, greatly influenced by koffka (one of the major proponents of gestalt psychology). his work deals with the problem of musical meaning and musical communication.