Complete the sentence with the diction most appropriate for the mood of the sentence.

the soccer players as their opponents beat them to nearly every ball.

a. sluggish
b. uninterested
c. reluctant

'Or are you wandering rogues, who cast your lives like dice, and ravage other folk by sea?'

'Then he dismembered them and made his meal, gaping and crunching like a mountain lion— everything: innards, flesh, and marrow bones'

'its crackling roots blazed and hissed – as a blacksmith plunges a glowing ax or adze in an ice-cold bath and the metal screeches steam and its temper hardens'

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