A Read the following sentence.
The diagnosis was pretty straightforward: In both ears, I lost some hearing at one range and a lot of hearing at another.
What is the denotative meaning of the word diagnosis as it is used in the sentence?
O An incorrect identification of the cause of a disease or illness
The act of identifying a disease or illness after an examination
An opinion of how a person will heal from an illness or injury
O An educated guess about a person's disease or illess

It is much safer to be feared than loved. . among the wonderful deeds of hannibal this one is enumerated: that having led an enormous army, composed of many various races of men, to fight in foreign lands, no dissensions arose either among them or against the prince, whether in his bad or in his good fortune. this arose from nothing else than his inhuman cruelty . . but without that cruelty, his other virtues were not sufficient to produce this effect. . that it is true his other virtues would not have been sufficient for him may be proved by the case of scipio, that most excellent man . . his army rebelled in spain; this arose from nothing but his too great forbearance, which gave his soldiers more license than is consistent with military discipline. –the prince, niccolò machiavelli which words in the passage have negative connotations?inhuman, cruelty, rebelled how do the words with negative connotations support the claim?by defining the actions of a leader who is to be feared