Question

A___ aroma of spices lured the poor, hungry _____ into the dim alley.​

Answer 1

pungent; waif

pungent is giving off a strong smell;

waif is a homeless, lonely child or animal

Answer 2

I've seen this question before, thus appealing to the correlation between ideas, "aroma" is a distinctive smell, then it would match with pungent (which describes a sharply smell) typical of spices; and the rest of the context matches with either: "urchin", "waif" or "homeless". Thereby is fair to say: "A pungent aroma..." and "hungry waif into the alley"

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