Why does carson mccullers use the term malady to describe american loneliness?
1)to illustrate that americans are nonconformists and, therefore, suffer from loneliness
2) to highlight that those americans who are lonely are ignorant of positive american features
3) to compare loneliness to an undesirable illness or disease that is difficult to cure
4) to suggest americans feel loneliness as a positive emotion that aids development
5) to show that europeans, unlike americans, have cured rampant loneliness

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .