Days in what became known as the Army-McCarthy hearings. Finally,
McCarthy staggered from the
contest discredited. With McCarthy's
fall came the beginning of the end
of one of the great Red Scares of
the time.
Which of the following BEST explains what the
word "discredited" means in the paragraph
above?
A
unsteady
B
dismissed
с
embattled
D
disgraced

Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

Suppose you connect a battery to a small light bulb with a single wire. what do you think will happen? explain your answer.

Question 1 of 5 2 points in "how to eat an ice-cream cone," what does the author compare a melting ice cream cone to? o a. a hand grenade b. a runaway train o c. a machine gun o d. an atomic bomb submit