Read the sentence from The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba.

Some of these people had mocked me for months, and still they whispered, even laughed.

Which word in the sentence is a strong word choice that provides context?

still
whispered
laughed
mocked

2read this passage from "the raven." what is puzzling the speaker in this stanza? 60% but the raven still beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, straight i wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door then, upon the velvet sinking, i betook myself to linking fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore- what this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore meant in croaking "nevermore." s and what the raven's message is why the raven came to visit where the raven came from how the raven got into his room