Question

What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything? Quiz
Read the following passage from page 70:

"Willie looked at his mother. 'You're unhappy,' he said. 'Are you ashamed?'

Mrs Markham sighed and closed her eyes. 'I wish you wouldn't ask that.'

'Why?'

'It hurts me.'

'But are you ashamed?' Willie persisted. He felt it was urgent that he know. So that he could do something."

Which word is a synonym for the word urgent as it is used in the story?

(1 point)
Responses

important
important

obvious
obvious

proper
proper

reasonable
reasonable

Answer 1

The word that is a synonym for "urgent" as it is used in the story is **important**.