Read the following paragraph. hector’s soccer team did not play well that afternoon. time and again, they lost the ball to the other team. they could only watch as their opponents scored goal after goal, while hector’s team failed to score a single point. it seemed as though every attempt hector and his teammates made to succeed was futile. hector overheard one of the players telling an onlooker that this was the worst they had ever played. hector knew it had been a bad game, but surely this was an exaggeration. which of the following phrases provides a context clue for the definition of the word futile? failed to score that afternoon scored goal after goal overheard one of the other players

while hectors team failed to score a single point

Explanation:

Would be my guess it’s the only sentence that stated it was a bad game

Failed to score

Explanation:

Context clues is a technique used to determine the meaning of an unknown word in a text by only looking at the surrounding information of that word. The phrase “Failed to score” provides a context clue for the word “futile” because it helps us infer that every attempt Hector and his teammates made to succeed was not successful, it was useless, futile.

the african society basically suffered the consequences of colonization and apartheid directly attacking the black people, first, during the colonialism and its main idea which which "white people" had better rights, affecting   them principally in the right to establish black people in their territories, access to quality education and health services and took away any civil right even to the black people to feel they have the same opportunities as the settlers.

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