Question

Read the following excerpt from Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and identify the correct synonym for each bolded word.

Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will—as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been. When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, free!" The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every in
ch of her body.

tumultuously
slender
vacant

Answer 1

a synonym for tumultuously is passionately
a synonym for slender is gracefully thin, not just skinny or small, but elegant

vacant is used in the sense that she is staring like a zombie - there is really nothing there in her head but she is scared

Step-by-step explanation:

if you think of something approaching her to possess her, she is really scared of it; often you can get scared to where you cannot even utter sound, much less scream