Choose the sentence that best uses a synonym as a context clue to clarify the meaning of the italicized word. (5 points) A. We can only speculate about what caused dinosaurs to become extinct. (word is speculate)
B. After the strenuous exercise at school, I went home to finish my homework.(word is strenuous)
C. My brother always cautions me not to exaggerate when I tell stories about my day.(word is exaggerate)
D. I know I left my laptop in the vicinity of the playing field, which is near the bleachers. (word is vicinity)

true. the definition explains it: a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. this is a dictionary definition that i have looked up in a dictionary.

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the best sentence that shows the best placement for the modifier "on the ice" is the one which contains it in the end of the sentence or in its beggining followed by a comma, that indicates it works as adverbial, dislocated in the sentence.

the girl promptly slid on her rollers on the ice.

on the ice, the girl promptly slid on her rollers.