Definition: In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.
Input: Sentence 1:However , Teller , in his later years , would come to deride much of what he saw as increasingly common exaggerations and general doomsdayism on the matter of climate change . Sentence 2:Thus , he became one of the most prestigious signers of the Oregon Petition .
Output:
thus