alleryChoose the option that BEST completes the sentence: 'Despite the chaos in the streets, the classroom remained ___ silent.'
AFrequently
BHeavily
CProfoundly
DLoudly
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Profoundly
'Profoundly silent' is the idiomatic intensifier for an unusually deep silence.
'Heavily' suggests weight
'loudly' contradicts silence
'frequently' is wrong category.
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