Match the bolded words in these lines from James Joyce’s story “Araby” to their synonyms. Use clues from the context in which the words appear.

Through one of the broken panes I heard the rain impinge upon the earth. . .
She was an old, garrulous woman, a pawnbroker's widow, who collected used stamps for some pious purpose.
It crept onward among ruinous houses and over the twinkling river. match

impinge
garrulous
pious
ruinous

religious
dilapidated
strike
loquacious

Question

Match the bolded words in these lines from James Joyce’s story “Araby” to their synonyms. Use clues from the context in which the words appear.

Through one of the broken panes I heard the rain impinge upon the earth. . .
She was an old, garrulous woman, a pawnbroker's widow, who collected used stamps for some pious purpose.
It crept onward among ruinous houses and over the twinkling river. match

impinge
garrulous
pious
ruinous

religious
dilapidated
strike 
loquacious

Tabaddress1123 · Answer

hey, are the bolded words the top or bottom words?

NonportritV2 · Answer

What are the bolded words?

AP · Answer

Impinge, garrulous, pious and ruinous are obviously the bolded words.

~ Impinge ~ means to interefere with something, affect someone in a negative way, or to /strike/ something
~ Garrulous ~ means to be excessively chatty or expansive, in other words, /loquacious/
~ Pious ~ simply means to be /religious/
And ~ Ruinous ~ means to be destructive or already /dilapadated/

- Good Luck (: