Read the passage. the man at the gas station gave me directions and then kept on chatting, telling me about the weather to come and places to stay nearby. his laconic wife simply nodded her head, occasionally correcting him on his lefts and rights and finally telling me i'd best be on my way if i wanted to reach town by sunset. based on context clues in the passage, what is the most likely meaning of laconic? select two options. talkative brief open warm concise

Brief and concise.

Explanation:

Context clues is a technique employed when reading that consists of looking at the surrounding information of an unknown word (such as phrases, synonyms, antonyms, and definitions) in order to infer its meaning.

Based on context clues in the passage, we can infer the meaning of laconic by contrast: While the man is talkative and i not direct, her wife is the opposite: she barely speaks and goes to the point. The most likely meaning of “laconic,” then, is brief and concise.

Meaning of laconic

Explanation:

It's the style of talking, people who answer in the few brief words. So, in this passage it shows that wife doesn't talk generally, but briefly, since it also says "occasionally correcting him on his lefts and rights", so she didn't really give the directions she just corrected his husband.

the answer is definitely option c. "sonnet xxxi best illustrates the division. in the octave, the poet observes that the moon is in love. in the sestet, he gives his reaction to the fickleness of woman's love."