Look at the lines and sentences below from the reading selections of this lesson. Find the best synonym for each bolded word and use it in your own sentences
1. When I set my feet in glory
I'll have a throne for minel
(excerpt from Montages of a Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes)
2. National coherence and solidarity is implicit in a thorough understanding of the various groups within a nation, and this lack of knowledge
about the internal emotions and behavior of the minorities cannot fail to bar out understanding. (excerpt from "What White Publishers
Won't Print" Zora Neale Hurston)
3. Books that deal with people like in Sinclair Lewis' Main Street is the necessary metier. (excerpt from 'What White Publishers Won't Print" by
Zora Neale Hurston)
4. She even thinks that up in heaven
Her class lies late and snores
(excerpt from "For a Lady I Know" by Countee Cullen)

Reread this portion of the excerpted text from common sense. men of passive tempers look somewhat lightly over the offenses of britain, and, still hoping for the best, are apt to call out, come, we shall be friends again for all this. but examine the passions and feelings of mankind. bring the doctrine of reconciliation to the touchstone of nature, and then tell me, whether you can hereafter love, honor, and faithfully serve the power that hath carried fire and sword into your land? if you cannot do all these, then are you only deceiving yourselves, and by your delay bringing ruin upon posterity. your future connection with britain, whom you can neither love nor honor, will be forced and unnatural, and being formed only on the plan of present convenience, will in a little time fall into a relapse more wretched than the first. what key concept about the relationship between an abusive government and its citizens does paine want readers to understand? use evidence from the text to support your response. your response should be one to two complete paragraphs.