Astudent council president is a representative of the students and plays an important role in conducting activities and events in the school. the chosen president works in close association with the students as well as the school authorities. one of the important duties of the student council president is to ensure that disagreements or problems in the school do not hamper school activities and meetings. as used in the passage, what does the word hamper mean? a. to give a hard time to b. to limit the effect of c. to slow down d. to interfere with

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it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.

b. our party quickly made its way into the cave / but we failed to find our host [the cyclops] himself inside.

1. negative, complain without fixing anything.

2. she disagrees with them.