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After receiving more food, the wife sent the fisherman to ask the fish for a bigger house while she nervously picked at the expensive lobster feast spread before her. She became perpetually restless and irritable, pacing the house until the fisherman returned home each day to discover his wife’s latest longing.

A synonym for the word longing in paragraph 9 is?


A) desire.

B) promise.

C) question.

D) shriek.

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Answer:

a desire

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Answer:

A) desire. longing and desire are synonyms.

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