Select the correct answer. select the correct definition of the word derided based on the context of the following line from james joyce's araby. gazing up into the darkness i saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity a. rebuked b. mocked saddened d. motivated

From his studies of coptic, champollion knew that the egyptian word for "sun" was pronounced rah. he wrote down the first two letters of that sound, ra. next he put a question mark for the unknown middle hieroglyph. then, at the end, he wrote ss, the sound of the last two hieroglyphs. he studied the combination: ra ? ss. suddenly he remembered a famous pharaoh whose name appeared in ancient greek chronicles and also in the biblical book of exodus: rameses, or ramesses. could this be a hieroglyphic representation of ramesses' name? based on the excerpt, what detail did champollion need to conclude that the hieroglyphics might represent ramesses’s name?

Which lines foreshadow macbeths eventual killing of the king

For which cause did swift not write? the tory government the devaluation of irish coins the whig wars under william iii the starvation in ireland