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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.

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 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.


(swollen) (disappointing) (Markedly noticeable) (Bad quality)