Question

"She imagined antique silks and exquisite furniture instead of the shabby rooms she found herself living in."

By using context clues, you can tell that the word exquisite means
A. colorful
B. tattered
C. oversized
D. luxurious

Answer 1

It's D. luxurious
she imagined antique silk which is luxurious

Answer 2

Answer: D) luxurious.

Step-by-step explanation: Context clues are hints that an author gives to help the readers understand a difficult or unusual word within a sentence or paragraph. In the given sentence we can infer the meaning of the word "exquisite" by the context clue "shabby" which is an antonym, so, from the given options the one that represents the meaning of "exquisite" is the correspondding to option D: luxurious (also an antonym of shabby).