Over many days and months Valli listened carefully to conversations between her neighbours and people who regularly used the bus, and she also asked a few discreet questions here and there. This way she picked up various small details about the bus journey. The town was six miles from her village. The fare was thirty paise one way which is almost nothing at all, she heard one well-dressed man say, but to Valli, who scarcely saw that much money from one month to the next, it seemed a fortune. The trip to the town took forty-five minutes. On reaching town, if she stayed in her seat and paid another thirty paise, she could return home on the same bus. This meant that she could take the one-oclock afternoon bus, reach the town at one forty-five, and be back home by about two forty-five...
1.Which word in the passage suggest the meaning ' probably not'?
a.Scarcely
b.Fortune
c.Discreet
d. Fare
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scarcely
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because fare and fortune meaning is different and the discreet tooo so answer is scarcely
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