Since it was a school day, Denise thought it was peculiar that she saw no children on the street during her drive to work. Use context clues to determine the meaning of each word. Identify the clues that led to your understanding of the word

The definition of peculiar is odd and strange. In this sentence, it doesn't make sense to use peculiar in it because since it is a school day, there shouldn't be children on the streets because they would be in school. So it wouldn't be odd for Denise not to see children when she is driving to work because it is a school day and they are in school.

anyone who was dealing with communism in soviet union in his time had an ideal picture of equality, freedom, the struggle of the working class for a better future, the success of the aristocracy's overthrow and the emancipation of subjugation.   however, anyone who would go to soviet union to see the functioning of the communist system, would be convinced that it was about sad people, about everyday bad life, about the brutal attitude of communist leaders, about ill obsession to completely exterminate every thought on aristocracy. thus, orwell wanted to show all the absurdity, the brutality of the system, the unbearable rule of suspicious morality, the ignorant people who try to play professionally.

the answers are: b. and e.

i'm on the same lesson : / i really don't want to do it..