Choose the best meaning of the word “reposeful” as it is used in the following passage:

Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above it, was green with vegetation and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting (par. 0).

Choose the best meaning of the word “melancholy” as it is used in the following passage:

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit (par. 00).

Choose the best meaning of the word “operation” as it is used in the following passage:

Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank; repeated the operation (par. 00).

Choose the best meaning of the word “tripping” as it is used in the following passage:

Soon the free boys would come tripping along on all sorts of delicious expeditions, and they would make a world of fun of him for having to work (par. 1).

Choose the best meaning of the word “straitened” as it is used in the following passage:

So he returned his straitened means to his pocket, and gave up the idea of trying to buy the boys (par. 1).

Choose the best meaning of the word “tranquilly” as it is used in the following passage:

He took up his brush and went tranquilly to work (par. 2).

Choose the best meaning of the word “gait” as it is used in the following passage:

Ben’s gait was the hop-skip-and-jump—proof enough that his heart was light and his anticipations high (par. 2).

Choose the best meaning of the word “surveyed” as it is used in the following passage:

Tom surveyed his last touch with the eye of an artist, then he gave his brush another gentle sweep and surveyed the result, as before (par. 7).

Choose the best meaning of the word “wheeled” as it is used in the following passage:

Tom wheeled suddenly and said:

“Why, it’s you, Ben! I warn’t noticing.” (par. 9, 10).

Choose the best meaning of the word “contemplated” as it is used in the following passage:

Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said:

“What do you call work?” (par. 12, 13)

Choose the best meaning of the word “suits” as it is used in the following passage:

“Well, maybe it is, and maybe it ain’t. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer” (par. 16).

Choose the best meaning of the word “absorbed” as it is used in the following passage:

. . . Ben watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more absorbed (par. 20).

Choose the best meaning of the word “consent” as it is used in the following passage:

Tom considered, was about to consent; but he altered his mind: (par. 22).

Choose the best meaning of the word “particular” as it is used in the following passage:

Yes, she’s awful particular about this fence; it’s got to be done very careful (par. 23).

Choose the best meaning of the word “tackle” as it is used in the following passage:

If you was to tackle this fence and anything was to happen to it—(25).

Choose the best meaning of the word “alacrity” as it is used in the following passage:

Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart (par. 29).

Choose the best meaning of the word “jeer” as it is used in the following passage:

. . . boys happened along every little while; they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash (par. 29).

Choose the best meaning of the word “repair” as it is used in the following passage:

By the time Ben was fagged out, Tom had traded the next chance to Billy Fisher for a kite, in good repair (par. 29).

Choose the best meaning of the word “dilapidated” as it is used in the following passage:

. . . the handle of a knife, four pieces of orange-peel, and a dilapidated old window sash (par. 29).