Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word colonies. Write your best definition here, along with words and phrases that were most helpful in determining the word's meaning. Then, check a dictionary to confirm your understanding.

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”

c. a group of tribes that formed a confederacy

c should be the correct answer