Read the paragraph from the section "it was a newspaper's idea."
the first official grou...
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Read the paragraph from the section "it was a newspaper's idea."
the first official groundhog day celebration in the u. s. took place february 2, 1887, in punxsutawney, pennsylvania. it was the brainchild of local newspaper editor clymer freas. he convinced a group of businessmen and groundhog hunters — known as the punxsutawney groundhog club — to support his idea. the men trekked to a site called gobbler’s knob, where the inaugural groundhog became the bearer of bad news; he saw his shadow, predicting six more weeks of wintery weather.
which of the following words or phrases from the paragraph give context clues to the meaning of the word "inaugural"?
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