The cool, rainy weather meant a dearth of tourists and plenty of available hotel rooms. Use context clues to s

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The cool, rainy weather meant a dearth of tourists and plenty of available hotel rooms.

Use context clues to select the correct meaning of the underlined word.


shortage


surplus


assortment


quantity

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shortage

Context: "dearth" means scarcity — the cool, rainy weather caused few tourists, so there was a shortage of them and many empty hotel rooms.

The cool, rainy weather meant a dearth of tourists and plenty of available hotel rooms.

Use context clues to select the correct meaning of the underlined word.

shortage

surplus

assortment

quantity

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The cool, rainy weather meant a dearth of tourists and plenty of available hotel rooms. Use context clues to select the correct meaning of the underlined word. shortage surplus assortment quantity

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The cool, rainy weather meant a dearth of tourists and plenty of available hotel rooms.

Use context clues to select the correct meaning of the underlined word.

shortage

surplus

assortment

quantity