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12 “Sorry!” she said with a tone so sugary that I could feel the insincerity oozing off her cloying smile. “I noticed you walking alone, and since I’ve never seen you before, I thought I might welcome you to the neighborhood!”
Read this sentence from Passage 2.
“‘Sorry!’ she said with a tone so sugary that I could feel the insincerity oozing off her cloying smile.” (paragraph 12)
What is the meaning of the word cloying as it is used in the passage?
A. strangely mysterious
B. extremely beautiful
C. excessively sweet
D. deeply genuine
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C. excessively sweet
"Cloying" describes something so sweet or sentimental that it becomes unpleasant or insincere — matching the "sugary" tone and the speaker's feeling of insincerity.
"Cloying" describes something so sweet or sentimental that it becomes unpleasant or insincere — matching the "sugary" tone and the speaker's feeling of insincerity.
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