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Which word is closest to the meaning of the underlined word as it is used in the paragraph?

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The weather this summer has been extremely hot. All the blooms on the rosebushes in Karen’s garden are beginning to wither. The heat and the sun are making the petals turn brown, and they crumble between my fingers.

wither
v. decay
v. droop
v. dry
v. shrink

A.
decay

B.
droop

C.
dry

D.
shrink



wither is the underline owrd

User BloodAxe
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A. decay

I'm pretty sure.
User Halil Ozel
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Dry because it's talking about heat basically draining the plant from all the moisture inside of it.
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