During his speech, the guest speaker wildly with his hands, distracting the audience from the important points he was trying to make. answer choices: intermingled afflicted gesticulated absconded

C) Gesticulated.

Explanation: the denotation of a word is its literal meaning, the definition that we can find in a dictionary, a word can have several denotations (or definitions). From the given options, the word that best complete the sentence, is the corresponding to option C: Gesticulated, which denotation is to use gestures, especially dramatic ones, instead of speaking or to emphasize one's words.

the correct answer is a "it describes nora and mrs. linde's relationship". opcions b and d are not related to the content of the passage in any way. option c could be appropiate but it does not fully capture the effect of the dialogue, while option a is quite appropiate, since the dialogue not only exemplifies the relationship between the characters, but it also captures the effect in the excerpt. we get to know that mrs linde bosses around and already knows nora.

b. the colonies must seek protection from other nations.