A few days ago
applejack250

Vocabulary Homework Help?

I have this summer assignment, and I cant seem to figure this one out.

“They MADE THEIR LANDFALL a couple thousand miles south of Newfoundland-perhaps in order to be closer to the Spanish- and explored the coast south of Chesapeake Bay.

made their landfall means:

A) sighted land

B) spent their evening

C) Made camp

D) set sail

Top 4 Answers
A few days ago
NY PTK

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A

Acutally that is truely a crappy definition from your teacher… It really means to get to land…not just sight it.

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A few days ago
Superdog
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“to bring to land,” c.1300, from land (n.). Originally of ships; of fish, in the angling sense, from 1613; hence fig. sense of “to obtain” (a job, etc.), first recorded 1854. Of aircraft, attested from 1916. Landing for boats is from 1609; of stairs, first attested 1789. Landfall “sighting of land” (1627) is from fall in the sense of “happen.”

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A few days ago
D. M.
A
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A few days ago
Karate Kid
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