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Excerpt from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Chapter 1)

Mark Twain

“Nothing! Look at your hands. And look at your mouth. What IS that truck?”
“I don’t know, aunt.”
“Well, I know. It’s jam—that’s what it is. Forty times I’ve said if you didn’t let that jam alone I’d skin you. Hand me that switch.”
The switch hovered in the air—the peril was desperate--
"My! Look behind you, aunt!"
Based on how the word jam is used in the passage, which term is a related word?

A) box
B) difficulty
C) favor
D) jelly

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It is [D] jelly because jam is another word for jelly
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