Question

floated on the consciousness of a new lease on life, all the hurried scurrying that morning forgotten—as if an entirely different person had presented himself huffing with indignation at the great specialists door. and now—mccafferty was alive, not just alive but healthy, strong, likely to live into the future stretching out before him: a highway of hope and optimism. this question has two parts. first, answer part a. then, answer part b. part a read this sentence from paragraph 4 \the covertly hostile stares from the other long - suffering patients enhanced mccaffertys giddiness.\ what does the word covertly mean? a tediously b impartially c extravagantly d surreptitiously

Explanation:

The word "covertly" means in a hidden or secretive way. "Surreptitiously" also means in a secret, furtive manner. The other options - "tediously" (in a boring way), "impartially" (fair - mindedly), and "extravagantly" (excessively) - do not match the meaning of "covertly".

Answer:

D. surreptitiously