English, 06.10.2019 03:30 maddie0533

read the sentence from washington irving's "the devil and tom walker," and then answer the question.

"tom had long been picking his way cautiously through this treacherous forest; stepping from tuft to tuft of rushes and roots which afforded precarious footholds among deep sloughs; or pacing carefully, like a cat, among the prostrate trunks of trees; startled now and then by the sudden screaming of the bittern, or the quacking of a wild duck, rising on the wing from some solitary pool."

which word in the sentence provides a context clue for precarious?
a. treacherous
b. deep
c. startled
d. solitary

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