Question

The poor woman was despondent after losing everything she owned in the fire.

Using context clues from the above sentence, the word despondent means:

A
excited

B
questioning

C
disheartened

D
radiant

Answer 1

Answer:

C disheartened

Explanation:

i said disheartened because despondent means loss of hope or in low spirit and disheartened is the same in meaning

Answer 2

Answer:

C, Disheartened. the sentence states that she was a poor woman, all of her belongings were most likely in that home. Also, if someone loses everything they had in a tragedy of some sort, they would most likely feel sad, disheartened, angry, ect. I hope this helped!