They appeared to me denizens of a brilliant existence. (“The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant")

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actors
actors

environmentalists
environmentalists

deserters
deserters

inhabitants

inhabitants

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

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

pitiful

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