Read the excerpt from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.

They grew vexed that Oz should treat them in so poor a fashion, after sending them to [suffer] hardships.
[question]: The first time-saving step to figure out the meaning of vexed is to

A) check for context clues.
B) read around the word.
C) read around the word.
D) use a dictionary.