Which sentence correctly uses the word abysmal? a. while breaking one pencil during the sats is bad luck, breaking six pencils is downright abysmal. b. peering over the edge into the dark abysmal, frank thought maybe he wasn't cut out for caving. c. jill could not understand seth's unflappable abysmal in the face of certain failure. d. phil nearly fell into the deep abysmal due to his foolish habit of reading while walking.

Read the passage below and answer the question. somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. in the excerpt above, the phrase "stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning" suggests that despite the heat, men still dressed up the men in the town were vain men's clothing appeared its best on hot days the men were not accustomed to wearing nice clothes