What is most closely the meaning of scarce as it is used in the following passage from “To His Excellency George Washington?
One century scarce perform’d its destined round,
When Gallic powers Columbia’s fury found;
And so may you, whoever dares disgrace
The land of freedom’s heaven-defended race!

Question 11 options:
A) adjective | rare
B) adjective | frightened
C) adverb | barely
D)adverb | impossibly

C) adverb | barely

Explanation:

That is the closest meaning to scarce in all the choices given

the answer is:

d. a story that frightened readers so much they would become suspicious of their surroundings

frankenstein is one of the terror novels wrote by the writers in a sort of bet, lord byron challenged them all to write a ghost story, and the story came to mary shelley in a dream, she wanted to conect with the fears of her society, fears of technology and changes, and she wanted readers to look around, freightened.

explanation:

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