JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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became ill with a disease
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became cured of a disease
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learned about a subject
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fought an enemy
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Detailed explanation-1: -to catch or become ill with a disease: He contracted malaria while he was travelling.
Detailed explanation-2: -Contact Diseases are transmitted when an infected person has direct bodily contact with an uninfected person and the microbe is passed from one to the other. Contact diseases can also be spread by indirect contact with an infected person’s environment or personal items.
Detailed explanation-3: -Unfortunately, ‘contact’ is not the right word for the expression; it is ‘contract’. People contract diseases, they do not contact them.
Detailed explanation-4: -A contracted form is a grammatical term. It refers to short words made by putting two words together and omitting some letters, which are replaced by an apostrophe.