Performance Task "Inventor Martha Coston" focuses on Martha Coston's night signal invention. The author

claims that it was Coston's "desire to provide for her family and her determination to

succeed [that] made the Coston night signals a great success. Write an essay analyzing

how the author develops and supports the claim. Use evidence from the text to support

your response.

Your writing will be scored based on the development of ideas, organization of writing,

and language conventions of grammar, usage, and mechanics.

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absolutism the political belief that one ruler should hold all of the power within the boundaries of a country.

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explanation:

1. buoyant: happy and confident (e)

2. euphoric: in a state of great happiness (a)

3. jubilant: having a feeling of great happiness and excitement (b)

4. rapturous: feeling or expressing great joy (d)

*note that the difference in 1-4 can be shown by signal words such as "in a state of" for the term "euphoric," as "euphoric" would describe a state of euphoria.

5. untroubled: calm and tranquil (c)

6. cajole: to talk coaxingly and flatteringly (i)

7. harangue: to express oneself at considerable length (h)

8. quibble: to evade the truth of the point at issue by arguing over trifles (g)

9. whine: to complain in a childish, fretful manner and in a nasal tone (j)

10. rant: to talk bombastically (f)