Read the sentence. i normally don’t mind reading long books, but when i saw the size of the tome that my history professor had assigned for homework, i cried. which word in the sentence is the best clue to defining the word tome? normally books history professor

Books, because it defines what type of tome it is which is a book.

The word “books” is the best clue. Immediately after the part where it says “I normally don’t mind reading long books”, the sentence says “but when I saw the size of the tome...”, the word “tome” of which is described by “books”. So, a tome is a “book”.

Note: the definition of tome is actually a very large and scholarly book.