Using context clues, determine the meaning of the bolded word. As they walked through the desert, the acrid climate made their mouths feel parched. moist rainy dry windy

dry

Explanation: The desert is very dry and that was the setting and parched means dry and "dry" is the only word to make sense.

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

what makes a hero is someone who tries and acres and then heps to save people