Read the paragraph from the section "it was a newspaper's idea."

the first official groundhog day celebration in the u. s. took place february 2, 1887, in punxsutawney, pennsylvania. it was the brainchild of local newspaper editor clymer freas. he convinced a group of businessmen and groundhog hunters — known as the punxsutawney groundhog club — to support his idea. the men trekked to a site called gobbler’s knob, where the inaugural groundhog became the bearer of bad news; he saw his shadow, predicting six more weeks of wintery weather.

which of the following words or phrases from the paragraph give context clues to the meaning of the word "inaugural"?

question 3 options:

the first official

celebration

support his idea

trekked

the first official

Explanation: Inaugural is a word, that marks the beginning of an institution, activity, or period of office. Here the first official Groundhog Day celebration.



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explanation:

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.