Answer: reassuring, punctuation, clue, excited
Explanation: add the answer choices next time please!!
<span>"decapitation of the government" is the idiom Jay Winik used in the second paragraph. The idiom's intended meaning is the severance of the top government officials from the remainder of civil society through assassination. I think the idiom was chosen to add a grave visual description of the sense of the moment.</span>
the answer is a
"Pa, when ah gets as big as you Ah'm goin' farther than them ships. Ah'm goin' to where the sky touches the ground."
The correct answer is paraphrasing.
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Instead of saying word-from-word what the person has told them and repeating it, they are saying "basically..."
