The flooding of the banks of the mississippi river the delta queen's docking on schedule.
a. annihilated
b. cloistered
c. precluded
d. vaunted

- self-esteem and a clear goal for writing

- financial security

- a room to be alone

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class