Read the excerpt from through the looking glass.

alice stood looking after it, almost ready to cry with vexation at having lost her dear little fellow-traveller so suddenly.

what option accurately defines the noun vexation as it is used in the excerpt?

a state of reduced circumstances
a state of extreme anger
a state of joy
a state of aggravation

a state of reduced circumstances

Explanation:

vexation means the state of being annoyed, frustrated, or worried. In this case she felt frustrated that´s mean with reduced circumstances to avoid  her dear little fellow-traveller

A state of aggravation

Explanation:

Looking at the surrounding information of the word "vexation", or context clues, we can infer that "vexation" has a very negative connotation: Alice was about to cry at having lost a person she appreaciated! so we can discard option 1 and 3.

And since the clues in the text are not enough, our best option is to look the word in the dictionary. Vexation refers to a state of being worried, frustrated, annoyed or troubled, similar to the noun "aggravation" which refers to a state of annoyance, exasperation or exacerbation or the process of making a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling worse, such as the bad circumstance of the "dear little fellow-traveler" leaving.

what was your story about? i remember this from my language arts class in flvs! i had ms. rosemeyer.

the narrator is saying that the old lady made her feel uncomfortable. you know this because they say "i found that rather irksome", "perhaps it was her being so upright and trim", and "i don't think it was that, because i thought that quaintly pleasant." hope this !