Which details are precise words that have a strong
feeling or connotation? Select all that apply
saw
On Christmas Eve I saw that my mother had outdone
herself in creating a strange menu. She was pulling black
veins out of the backs of fleshy prawns. The kitchen was
littered with appalling mounds of raw food: A slimy rock
cod with bulging fish eyes that pleaded not to be thrown
into a pain of hot oil. Tofu, which looked like stacked
wedges of rubbery white sponges. A bowl soaking dried
fungus back to life. A plate of squid, their backs
crisscrossed with knife markings so they resembled
bicycle tires.
-"Fish Cheeks,"Amy Tan
□saw
□strange
□littered
□rubbery
□fungus
□crisscrossed

13 points : ) which two aspects of scrooge's character does this excerpt from a christmas carol by charles dickens reveal? "i wish to be left alone," said scrooge. "since you ask me what i wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. i don’t make merry myself at christmas and i can't afford to make idle people merry. i to support the establishments i have mentioned—they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there." "many can’t go there; and many would rather die." "if they would rather die," said scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. besides—excuse me—i don't know that." "but you might know it," observed the gentleman. his stingy attitude and conduct his distrust of government institutions his indifference to others' suffering his support for the community