An online thesaurus has given you the following four options to replace the word brooding in the sentence below: after the long discussion with her parents, alison sat in her room, brooding about her choices. which option from the thesaurus makes the best replacement for brooding? dismissing: to reject serious consideration of something daydreaming: fantasizing while awake pondering: to give serious and careful thought to something sulking: remaining silent in an offended mood

pondering would be the answer because of it meaning and what alison was doing

I believe the answer may be pondering.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing

answer: may i ask who shelly is?