Question

As soon as the bacon was well under way, and Millie, her lymphatic aid had been brisked up a bit, by a few deftly chosen words of contempt, she carried the cloth, plates, and glasses into the parlour and began to lay them with the utmost eclat.’

lymphatic mean as it is used in the sentence?
A) sluggish
B) cheerful
C) energetic
D) relating to a lymph node

Answer 1

A), since lymphatic means sluggish we can infer that this means that the nurse was sluggish and slow, but was "brisked up a bit"

Answer 2

Answer: A) Sluggish.

Explanation: Someone sluggish is a person that moves slow, that is lacking energy or alertness. In the given excerpt we can see that the word "lymphatic" is used to give the idea of Millie being sluggish, we can know that because of the context clue "had been brisked up a bit, by a few deftly chosen words of contempt" this conveys that she was slow and lacking energy until she "brisked up." So the correct answer is option A.