Which of the following best defines the underlined word in the sentence below: “When Alex turned eighteen, he immediately enrolled in the selective service in case the government instituted a draft.” A. voluntary military service B. voluntary service in local government C. mandatory jury service D. mandatory military service

A. voluntary military service

Explanation:

he is going before being drafted which makes it voluntary. The selective service is military service. So its quite simple really.

i am sure the answer is d

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion