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Read the excerpt from "The Story of an Hour."
“Go away. I am not making myself ill.” No; she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window.
Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own.
Which is the correct definition of the word “elixir” based on its usage in the excerpt?
sweet medicine . bitter medicine . tasteless medicine . colorless medicine

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Sweet Medicine

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Answer:

The correct definition of the word elixir, based on the usage in this excerpt from The Story of an Hour, is the first one: sweet medicine.

Step-by-step explanation:

According to this excerpt, the woman was not making herself ill -by breathing the air that came from the open window- she was "drinking" the elixir of life, which made her happy, and made her forget the bad things in her life. That pure, warm air was like medicine for her, a sweet, good medicine.

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