Which word in this excerpt from HG Wells's The War of the Worlds provides a context clue to the meaning of the word descended? I was at home at that hour and writing in my study, and although my French windows face towards Ottershaw and the blind was up (for I loved
in those days to look up at the night skyl. I saw nothing of it. Yet this “strangest” of all things that ever came to earth from outer space must have
fallen while I was sitting there, visible to me had I only looked up as it “passed”. Some of those who saw its flight say it travelled with a hissing
sound. I myself heard nothing of that. Many people in Berkshire, Surrey, and Middlesex must have seen the fall of it, and, at most have thought
that another meteorite had |descended|. No one seems to have “troubled” to look for the “fallen” mass that night.

Plz im failing ela prompt: in a well-developed paragraph using the r.a.c.e. method, explain the allusion found in the advertisement. be sure to include an explanation of the character and how the allusion is used to sell the product. advertisement: excerpt from the christmas carol: use this information to deepen your understanding of the character. oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. the cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. a frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. he carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at christmas. race: use this organizational method to guide your writing- r – restate the prompt a – answer the prompt/questions c – cite evidence e – explain the evidence write your response here: