Choose the meaning of the bold word.
Failing that, I could have surreptitiously dumped the whole outfit overboard, written off the forty or so dollars as love’s tribute. (“The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant")
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happily
happily
slyly
slyly
enthusiastically
enthusiastically
sorrowfully
sorrowfully
slyly
Choose the meaning of the bold word.
But since he had called our names at the beginning of the service we were mollified. (from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)
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baffled
baffled
alerted
alerted
calmed
calmed
upset
calmed
Choose the meaning of the bold word.
We were maids and farmers, handymen and washerwomen, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous. (from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)
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puzzling
puzzling
too bold
too bold
silly
silly
pitiful
silly
Choose the meaning of the bold word.
The ugliness they left was palpable. (from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)
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able to be felt
able to be felt
strange
strange
hurtful
hurtful
imagined
imagined
able to be felt
Choose the meaning of the bold word.
“I won’t touch it,” he said sullenly. (“The Scarlet Ibis")
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sulkily
sulkily
savagely
savagely
suspiciously
suspiciously
swiftly
swiftly
sulkily
Choose the meaning of the bold word.
On the topmost branch a bird the size of a chicken, with scarlet feathers and long legs, was perched precariously. (“The Scarlet Ibis")
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oddly
oddly
insecurely
insecurely
enthusiastically
enthusiastically
for all to see