What is the first step in getting the gist?
a) identifying keywords
b) forming mental pictures
c) determining the main idea
d) looking up unknown words

The correct answer would be A. The first step in getting the gist would be to identify the keywords. Getting gist is the same as knowing the main idea of a certain passage. The very first to identify this should be to find keywords that you think is important in the text and speaks of the message of the passage.

Cthe answer is c uwu

If you look at the surrounding words, you can get a general basis of what another word for inviolate would be. i would say that it is pristine