Question

Pick one answer please!

Read the passage below from The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and answer the question.

Whether or not I should tell the captain what I’d just heard was a more delicate question. To confess that I’d even been spoken to in such an offending fashion would have made me feel acutely uncomfortable. But not to speak of it would smack of complicity.

Excerpts from The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, copyright © 1990 by Avi. Used by permission of Brandt and Hochman Literary Agents, Inc. All rights reserved.

Which of the following is the best meaning for complicity?

1. positively contributing
2. involvement in wrongdoing
3. resentment
4. generosity

Answer 1

b

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Answer : 2) Involvement in wrongdoing

In this excerpt she is talking about a “delicate” experience, making her uncomfortable, so we can infer it was a bad experience. She then further states that by not talking about it would make the act seem even more “complicit” which indicates a wrongdoing would take place if she doesn’t speak on it.