Using the context clues, how would you best define dismal in the following sentence: with the tuohys' encouragement, michael got his dismal grade point average up and went out for football his junior year.

a• dark
b• promising
c• unsatisfactory
d•deary

with phrases like “encouragement” and “GPA avrg. up” it gives the tone of a promising character, so the answer is B.

It's dreary the other guy is wrong!

Explanation:

The others ones don't even make sense. Oh and I took the test!

dr. kings dream speech

explanation:

it was late in the day and hot, and after a long march and an afternoon of speeches about federal legislation, unemployment and racial and social justice, the rev. dr. martin luther king jr. finally stepped to the lectern, in front of the lincoln memorial, to address the crowd of 250,000 gathered on the national mall.

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.