Question

Based on the context of each quote from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," choose the word that most closely matches the denotation of the bolded word. Tiles swollen disappointing markedly noticeable bad quality
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swollen
disappointing
markedly noticeable
bad quality



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But in the places where it isn't faded and where the sun is just so—I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure that seems to skulk; lie in wait about behind that silly and conspicuous front design.

Looked at in one way each breadth stands alone, the bloated curves and flourishes—a kind of "debased Romanesque" with delirium tremens—go waddling up and down in isolated columns of fatuity.

There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down.

"Better in body perhaps — " I began, and stopped short, for he sat up straight and looked at me with such a stern, reproachful look that I could not say another word.

Answer 1

• Swollen -  There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down.

"Bulbous" mean something fat, round, or bulging, similar to "Swollen" which is the state of being larger or rounder in size of what something normally is.

• Disappointing -  "Better in body perhaps — " I began, and stopped short, for he sat up straight and looked at me with such a stern, reproachful look that I could not say another word.

Reproachful is an adjective and it's used when something/someone expresses disapproval or disappointment.

• Markedly noticeable -  But in the places where it isn't faded and where the sun is just so—I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure that seems to skulk; lie in wait about behind that silly and conspicuous front design.

Something conspicuous is something obvious to the eye or mind (it easily catches people's attention), something markedly noticeable.

• Bad quality -  Looked at in one way each breadth stands alone, the bloated curves and flourishes—a kind of "debased Romanesque" with delirium tremens—go waddling up and down in isolated columns of fatuity.

Debased means degraded, reduced in quality or value.