Read the excerpt below and answer the question. i had assumed that my talent-show fiasco meant that i would never have to play the piano again. but two days later, after school, my mother came out of the kitchen and saw me watching tv. "four clock," she reminded me, as if it were any other day. in the excerpt above, what can be inferred from the statement, " as if it were any other day"? the narrator thinks her mother has lost track of time. the narrator hopes to become a prodigy by watching television daily. the mother wants her daughter to do her homework as soon as she returns from school. the mother continues to believe that her daughter can become a prodigy.

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What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

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