Choose the best definition for the word strait. a. a narrow passage of land between two c. a narrow passage of water connecting two
bodies of water
large bodies of water
b. a natural stream of water larger than a d. a great body of salty water that covers
brook or creek
much of the earth

In “the bet” by anton p. chekhov, what motivates the lawyer to participate in the bet?

Excerpt from saving the thrift store: a dramalee washington2rosa: eddie, i don’t recognize the shirt you’re wearing. when did you get it? 3louis: it doesn’t look as disheveled as the soccer shirts you wear all the time.4eddie: well, i’m not going to tiptoe through the soccer field to keep my clothes neat. (louis playfully aims a soccer ball at eddie. rosa deflects it.)5rosa: what i was trying to say is that the shirt looks really good. (louis wanders over to the morning newspaper that is still sitting on the front lawn. he leafs through it while eddie and rosa talk.) in line 5, which point is rosa making when she says eddie’s shirt looks good? a) the store must have new merchandise. b) rosa is jealous of eddie’s new shirt. c) eddie must have done his own laundry. d) eddie often wears old, tattered shirts.

What comparison best describes daniel defoe’s a journal of the plague year and samuel pepys diary