The connotative meaning of a word refers to
a. what it suggests about something.
b. its dictionary definition.
c. its meaning at a specific time in history.
d. the irony suggested by the word.

your answer would be 12 stories

according to the quotation from booker t. washington's 1895 atlanta compromise speech.

in the great leap from slavery to freedom . . the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands . . we shall prosper . . as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor.

washington believed that  hard work had its own kind of dignity.

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