The dictionaries are in alphabetical order so there really is not trick to looking in them. Also, we have Google so dictionaries aren’t really that helpful. Therefore, this question is kind of a scam. Which ever teacher gave you this is playing you. Haha.
I feel like it's implying that, Britannia is in a very very weary deep thought process.
I mean, droops can be referred to weary, and pensive means thought, or a deep thought.
However, weary could be tired. This is completely an assumption.
Carson puts two opposite forces, feelings or ideas to each-other. In the essay, these forces are love and fear. The author shows how these feelings work and what kind of effect they have on us. Love is a motivation, a positive feeling or something eradicates hate - in this essay fear. Fear, instead is something negative which wipes away love.
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Confirmation bias is a psychological phenomenon in which a person tends to accept those references or findings which confirm his/her existing belief in things. Confirmation bias leads to statistical errors, as it influences the way people gather information and interpret it.
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