What is the most likely meaning of incentive in this sentence from the selection from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad? She had told them about the place where they would stay, promising warmth and good food, holding these things out to them as an incentive to keep going.

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Xander Wolf

19 April, 08:37

What is the most likely meaning of incentive in this sentence from the selection from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad? She had told them about the place where they would stay, promising warmth and good food, holding these things out to them as an incentive to keep going.

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Clarissa Hawkins · Answer 1

The options to this question are the following:

motivation; encouragement determination; grit wealth; profit comfort; ease

Answer:

1. motivation; encouragement

Explanation:

An incentive is something that motivates or encourages us to do something. We all have incentives to do the things we do, even if we do not even notice it. In the excerpt, the incentive or motivation of the slaves (to which the woman is referring to) to keep going is the thought or hope of getting to a warm place with good food.