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Help Please 3 questions

Answer 1

1.
“It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms.”

Which of these is nearest in meaning to the word importuning, as it is used in the passage above? (1 point)

attacking
chasing
pestering
examining

2.
“… and as far as we could see up the hill of the city, in a most horrid, malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire.”

Which of these is nearest in meaning to the word horrid, as it is used in the passage above? (1 point)

fading
heartrending
heinous
precise

3.
Getting the enormous television to the repair shop proved a lengthy and ponderous task. (1 point)

painful
unwieldy
futile
expensive

Matching

Answer 2

I just want to make sure they are right to what i have

Answer 3

-pestering
-Heartrending (not sure)
-unwieldy