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Read the passage below and answer the question. MR. VAN DAAN, a tall, portly man in his late forties, is in the main room, pacing up and down, nervously smoking a cigarette. His clothes and overcoat are expensive and well cut. What is the meaning of the word portly in this passage? thin stout anxious energetic

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Anxious

Step-by-step explanation:

It said that he was walking around nervously smoking a cigarette.

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