Answer: Connectedness
In this excerpt, the author is defining the woman not in terms of her own personal qualities, but in terms of her ancestry and background. This shows that the woman is interpreted not as an individual, but as part of a family. Moreover, this shows the connectedness between the woman and her ancestry.
moving from one idea to the next.
The correct answer is: we hate to waste food, so we put all our kitchen scraps in the compost pile.
Indeed, you use semicolons when you have two independent clauses, i.e. clauses that have independent ideas that can stand on their own. This applies to both of the clauses. Here, we have the first clause about hating food waste which definitely stands on its own. The second clause refers to the act of putting kitchen scraps in the compost pile. It is an independent idea, it is not connected with food waste since scraps that are put in the compost pile are no longer food.
communism is a moneyless, stateless, society in which the people own the means of production and consume and produce as they need.
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C. American Dialect Dictionary
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