Question

tornadoes at camp
the pa cracked through camp louella like sheet lightning. we had been looking forward to the trip all year. one week without our parents, without homework and history class and sniveling first-graders in the halls. it was the culmination of our time in elementary school, one last hurrah before we moved on to middle school. we had been at the camp for less than a day, and already we regretted it.
camp louella sits on the border between texas and oklahoma—three hours on the bus and another hour learning camp procedures made for an exhausting day. dinner was served at 6:30 every evening. it was 5:15, and already the boys were starving. we huddled in a shelter beneath the cabin and listened. the silence was electric.
“mr. chestnut, i really have to use the bathroom!” pleaded ben. the rest of us giggled.
“i can’t let you leave the shelter right now. there are tornadoes nearby,” he explained.
“but—”
read the excerpt from the passage.
small tornadoes littered the landscape with branches and debris. one had been spotted in the county adjacent to ours at 5:10.
which answer choice best describes the denotation of adjacent in this context?
a distant
b unconnected
c bordering
d apart from

Explanation:

Denotation refers to the literal meaning of a word. In the context, "adjacent" describes the county where the tornado was spotted relative to the campers' county. "Bordering" directly matches the literal meaning of adjacent (sharing a boundary or being next to), while the other options (distant, unconnected, apart from) are opposites or incorrect.

Answer:

C. Bordering