Carefully reread the following sentence from the passage: "It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands adjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution."

In this sentence "snuffed" most closely means [RL. 11-12.4]

A. extinguished.

B. smelled.

C ...

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Erica Roach

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2 October, 11:52

Carefully reread the following sentence from the passage: "It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands adjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution."

In this sentence "snuffed" most closely means [RL. 11-12.4]

A. extinguished.

B. smelled.

C ...

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Claudia Combs · Answer 1

The best option from the list would be that "snuffed" in this context means "extinguished," since not only is this the most prominent definition of the word, but it also makes sense in the narration.