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Read the passage from "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek." Just a breath before he would have been dashed to the ground, he unfurled his wings with exact, deliberate care, revealing the broad bars of white... Which best determines the connotative meaning of the underlined word? A. thrown B. fallen C. destroyed D. bumped

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I took the test and it says the answer is C. Destroyed

The word that best determines the connotative meaning of the underlined word "dashed" is "destroyed".

What do you mean by connotative meaning?

A word's connotative meaning comprises the emotions and concepts that people may associate with it.

The connotative meaning of "dashed" is "destroyed" as it means to break or shatter by violently knocking or striking.

Therefore, the meaning of the phrases dash and destroy is the same: to completely "end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of".

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