Select the word that is used in a primarily connotative way. I let Elmer use my apartment, and he totally trashed the place. The
least he could have done was clean the dishes in the sink and take the
garbage out. When I watched his place, I even took out the cat litter!
A. trashed
B. clean
C. garbage
D. litter

Trashed

Explanation:

I just finished the quiz and this was correct, also if you look in the paragraph and see what each word's significance in it is, you'll see that trashed is the correct answer.

the support that the author, uses in the article facing our fears is a): a definition of the part of the brain called the amygdala.

he takes neuroscientist joseph ledoux's words by telling that by falling to distinguish between evolutionary old systems located in the amygdala and newer systems, centered in the prefrontal cortex, doctors have conflated non conscious threat circuits in the brain with circuits that underlie the conscious experience of fear. that, the author says, "leads ledoux to the jarring conclusion that the amygdala, a decades-old centerpiece of the brain's fear circuit, does not underlie the conscious feeling of fear".

despite this, the author points out in the article that that is a controversial notion and that evidence, in animal and humans, supports the idea that core emotions can exist outside of conscious awareness.

b. his ability to use formal language to stress strong feelings