Question

the idiot
fyodor dostoevsky
towards the end of november, during a thaw, at nine oclock one morning, a train on the warsaw and petersburg railway was approaching the latter city at full speed. the morning was so damp and misty that it was only with great difficulty that the day succeeded in breaking; and it was impossible to distinguish anything more than a few yards away from the carriage windows.
some of the passengers by this particular train were returning from abroad, but the third - class passengers were the best filled, chiefly with insignificant persons of various occupations and degrees, picked up at the different stations nearer town. all of them seemed weary, and most of them had sleepy eyes and a shivering expression, while their countenances generally expressed a strange weariness of the soul.
when day dawned, two passengers in one of the third - class carriages found themselves opposite each other. both were young fellows, both were rather poorly dressed, both had remarkable faces, and both were evidently anxious to start a conversation. if they had but known why, at this particular moment, they were both remarkable persons, they would undoubtedly have wondered at the strange chance which had set them down opposite to one another in a third - class carriage of the warsaw railway company.
one of them was a young fellow of about twenty - seven, not tall, with black curling hair and small, grey, fiery eyes. his nose was broad and flat, and he had high cheekbones; his thin lips were constantly compressed into an impudent, ironical - right almost be called a malicious - smile; but his forehead was high and well - formed, and denoted a good deal of intelligence in spite of the rather bilious expression of his face. a special feature of this physiognomy was its death - like pallor, which gave to the young man an indescribably emaciated appearance in spite of his hard look, and at the same time a kind of passionate heat which was quite at variance with his impudent, sarcastic smile and his keen, intelligent eyes. he wore a large fur or rather astrakhan - overcoat, which had kept him warm all night, while his neighbour had been obliged to bear the full severity of a russian winter night entirely unprotected. he wore a sleeveless cloak with a large cape, the sort of cloak one sees upon a journeying peasant in autumn or from day - to - day by no means adapted to the long cold journey through russia from eydkuhnen to st. petersburg.
the owner of this cloak was a young fellow, also about twenty or twenty - seven years of age, slightly above the middle height, very fair, with a thin, pointed and very light - coloured beard; his eyes were large and blue and had an open look about them, yet that heavy expression which some people affirm to be a peculiarity of russian eyes. his face was decidedly pleasant, simple, and rather refined, but quite colourless and looked as though it were exhausted by fever or by some other sickness. based on the context of this sentence, what does the word \bilious\ mean?
a make up for; atone for
b make worse or more difficult
c bad - tempered or irritable
d put together in a complicated way

Explanation:

In the context, "compressed" in "his face was commonly compressed into an impatient, cynical - right almost be called a malicious - smile" implies making the face take on a certain form or expression. "Squeezed together in a complicated way" best describes this action of the face muscles forming a particular expression.

Answer:

D. put together in a complicated way