Answer: Excessive

Answer: Flamboyant

Glamorous

In order to avoid changing the meaning of the sentence, we need to replace the underlined word with a synonym. 

"Pleased" means to be happy about. Of the choices provided, "delighted" means the same thing as "pleased" and "happy". 

"Sad", "devastated", and "fearful" are all antonyms of "pleased", they mean the opposite of being happy. 

In order to avoid changing the meaning of the sentence, we need to replace the underlined word with a synonym. 

Both "fearful" and "anxious" mean to be scared. 

"Excited", "confident", and "encouraged" are all antonyms of scared, they mean to feel comfortable or happy. 

In order to avoid changing the meaning of the sentence, we need to replace the underlined word with a synonym. 

"Drained" and "drowsy" both mean to be tired. "Energized", "activated", and "rested" are all antonyms, they all mean to be awake. 

We'll need to use context clues to figure out what the author means when he uses the word "pipe." Don't jump to conclusions and pick the most familiar answer choice without considering the word in the passage. Make sure to find it in the paragraph indicated and consider it's specific context—that is, the words and sentences around it—before picking your answer choice.

The context in which the word "pipe" appears is as follows:

I said to him — “My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How remarkably well you are looking today. But I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado, and I have my doubts.”

“How?” said he. “Amontillado? A pipe? Impossible! And in the middle of the carnival!”

We can tell from this exchange that "pipe" is being used as a noun that indicates some sort of unit or container of amontillado. Music and songs aren't mentioned at all, so neither "a musical instrument" nor "a song played in a high octave" is correct. "Pipe" might often be used to mean "a conduit used to conduct liquids or gasses over large distances," but that's not how it's being used here. It indicates a definite amount of amontillado, not a conduit through which a non-definite amount of something might travel. Furthermore, "an instrument used for smoking tobacco" is also another common use of the word "pipe," but we can figure out that this isn't the correct answer by noting that "amontillado" is closely compared with "sherry" when Fortunato insults Luchresi by saying, "Luchresi cannot tell Amontillado from Sherry." "Sherry," the footnotes inform us, is a type of fortified wine, so "amontillado" must be something very similar to a type of fortified wine. We can infer that it is most likely also a liquid, so "an instrument used for smoking tobacco" can't be correct, because it would at least need to deal with something solid, not liquid. The correct answer is "a wine cask of specific size." This captures the "unit of measurement" aspect as well as the fact that it has to do with a liquid.

"Amontillado" is an important word to understand in this story. It appears in the title, and the characters spend a lot of their dialogue discussing it. So, what is it? We'll have to use context clues to figure this out.

Not counting the title, when is amontillado first mentioned in the story? The narrator—whom we know to be out to get revenge on Fortunato, since he's directly told us this—meets Fortunato at the carnival and says "But I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado, and I have my doubts." Fortunato is flabbergasted at this news. ("Impossible! And in the middle of the carnival!") The narrator mentions that he "was silly enough to pay the full Amontillado price without consulting you in the matter." Why would the narrator want to consult Forunato about amontillado? What do we know about Fortunato's expertise? We're told earlier that Fortunato "prided himself upon his connoisseurship in wine" and that "In painting and gemmary, Fortunato, like his countrymen, was a quack, but in the matter of old wines he was sincere." Ok, so maybe amontillado has something to do with wine. Let's read on.

As the two characters continue to talk, the narrator says, “As you are engaged, I am on my way to Luchresi. If any one has a critical turn it is he. He will tell me ——” At this point Fortunato interrupts, saying, “Luchresi cannot tell Amontillado from Sherry⁴.” Aha! This is a useful comparison for our purposes. The gist of Fortunato's statement is "Luchresi isn't that smart. He can't tell apart amontillado and sherry." This tells us that amontillado must necessarily be quite similar to sherry, or it wouldn't be a demonstration of how skilled and smart you are to be able to tell them apart. The footnotes tell us that "sherry" is a type of fortified wine. So, it turns out that our initial hypothesis was correct—amontillado must be a type of wine, or something very like wine. Given this, the best answer choice—and the correct one—is "a valuable type of wine."

The word “egging” appears in the following sentence in the passage:

This practice, followed by the almost continual egging, clubbing, shooting, etc. by Labrador fishermen, may have been a chief factor in the extinction of the Labrador duck.

The word “egging” is here clearly describing something with a bad connotation, as it appears in parallel with “clubbing” and “shooting.” We can infer that it must mean doing something to hurt the ducks, as “clubbing” and “shooting” have that in common. This lets us discard the answer choices “the laying of eggs” and “the hatching of eggs.” These wouldn’t hurt the ducks, and at any rate, ducks lay their own eggs and then those eggs hatch; neither answer choice makes sense when used to describe something humans could do to duck eggs. While to “egg someone on” can mean to encourage that person, that is not the meaning that is being used in the passage, so we can ignore this answer choice as well. This leaves us with “the act of throwing eggs at a target” and “the destruction of eggs.” Nothing suggests that the eggs are being thrown at the ducks, so the better answer choice is the more general one, “the gathering and removing of eggs.” Indeed, this makes more sense, as the hunters could probably eat or sell the eggs.

We can figure out what particular definition of "terrible" is meant in the passage by considering the context in which the word is used—that is, the meaning of the rest of the words around it. Let's consider the clause in which "terrible" appears. The narrator is talking about the unusual sailor staying in his family's inn, and says,

. . . it was a fine excitement in a quiet country life, and there was even a party of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog" and a "real old salt" and such like names, and saying there was the sort of man that made England terrible at sea.

So, some young men call the sailor a "true sea-dog" and a "real old salt." These are meant to be positive names, as we can tell because the narrator says that these young men "pretend to admire" the sailor. They also say that the sailor is "the sort of man that made England terrible at sea." If the young men are saying otherwise nice things about the sailor, it wouldn't make sense for them to suddenly and without warning switch perspectives and say something insulting, like that the sailor made England "unskilled and weak" at sea, or "evil and malicious" at sea. The answer choices "of low quality" and "ill and nauseous" don't make any sense as potential meanings for "terrible," so the correct answer must be the only remaining answer choice, "formidable and powerful." This answer makes sense, because as a meaning of "terrible," it would allow the young men to be saying something positive about the sailor, which would match the tenor of the other things they say about him.