PLEASE HELP PLEASE Read the following passage and answer the question. "You are not paid to be idle," the captain often declared, and he, setting an example, was never slack in his
duty
Excerpts from The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, copyright 1990 by Avi Used by permission of Brandt and Hochman Literary Agents, Inc. All rights
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Which of the following words provides a clue as to the meaning of the word "idle"?
example
his
duty
slack

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