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Which words would be the closest to the meaning of the underlined word as it is used in the paragraph?

We tried to get permission to begin building our new library. But some of the city council members tried to bog down our efforts. It seems they wanted to use the money to build a swimming pool instead.

bog, n. swamp, marsh, mire
v. delay, limit, defeat

Select the two correct answers.

A delay

B limit

C marsh

D swamp

Yosemite has spectacular scenery and which has half-time bears. how do i write i. parallel structure?

In the poem, collins compares his love to a pigeon on a generals head

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt