Read the excerpt below and answer the question.
From even this stronghold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant wife, who would suddenly
break in upon the tranquillity of the assemblage, and call the members all to nought, nor was that august
personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who charged him
outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness.
Using context clues, which of the following is a synonym for the word TERMAGANT?
rude
orderly
shrew
calm

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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the civil rights act was passed on april 9, 1866 by a republican dominated congress. it was passed over president johnson's veto, in an effort to push back against discrimination of african americans.

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