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Read these lines: "A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?" As used in the quoted lines, the word "queer" most nearly means
Acostly for a place of its size
Bpleasant to look at from outside
Cempty of any furniture at all
Dstrange in a way she cannot explain
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. strange in a way she cannot explain
1. 1. The word sits between a joke about a haunted house and two puzzled questions.
2. 2. The questions ask why the place is let so cheaply and why it stood so long empty, which are oddities she cannot account for.
3. 3. So queer here means strange or unaccountable.
4. 4. Cheapness is the opposite of costly, and neither looks nor furniture is the point of her two questions.
_Source: The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)_
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