1. when we speak of the flavor of a word, we're talking about the extra understood meanings that it carries in addition to its main meaning. these extra meanings are called
a. connotations.
b. definitions.
c. shadings.
d. denotations.
2. when using direct quotations in your writing, which of the following should be placed outside the set of quotation marks?
a. question mark
b. semicolon
c. comma
d. perio

1. (a)Connotations, 2. (b) Semicolon

Explanation:

Connotations

Connotations, are a special type or  flavor of a word, when an  extra understood meanings that  carries in addition to its main meaning connotation is   described as either as a negative or  positive or, with regard to its displeasing or  pleasing   of emotional connection.

Semi colon

A semicolon can be used between two independent clauses, that are  closely related but ensures that  they are not  joined already  by a coordinating conjunction.

recent news about two years ago indicates that a polish forestry student by chance unearthed at a depth of about 40cm (16 inches), during digging in a damp polish forest he found a 13-page manuscript into a thermos flask.

greek jew marcel nadjari was a aischwitz slave who witnessed how the nazi's built big death chambers and crematoriums and told how he was forced to escort fellow jews to the gas chambers. he accounts on this manuscript how the nazi's disguised this chambers to look like showers. also, he describes this place as a process of extermination from the chambers to the trains arriving to take the bodies.