5the sacramento region used great power in the decade of the 1850s, in spite of its small resident population, when compared to san francisco. the largest portion of the state's population lived in the "sacramento district." sacramento representatives strongly influenced the state's constitutional convention, landed the permanent state capitol, and elected the state's first governor. sacramento’s influence was in large part due to its growth in commerce, particularly that portion related to transportation such as railroads and steamboats, as well as wholesale merchants who supplied retailers throughout california and nevada. those large-scale merchants of sacramento saw their success tied to better wagon roads and railroads. in this sentence from paragraph five,
which phrase is the least effective replacement for the phrase "used great power"?
a) applied great power
b) exerted great power
c) employed great power
d) squandered great power

the LEAST effective replacement for the phrase "used great power": D) squandered great power

Explanation:

The phrase "used great power" means that the Sacramento region had great power/ great influence in the decade of the 1850s.

So "applied great power", "exerted great power" and "employed great power" could be considered synonyms of this phrase.

The phrase "squandered great power" would be wrong to use in this context, because "to squander" means to "waste" and Sacramento wasn't wasting its power - quite the contrary, as it's said in the text Sacramento had a powerful voice -> "Sacramento's influence was in large part due to its growth in commerce, particularly that portion related to transportation".

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.

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