I normally don’t mind reading long books, but when I saw the size of the tome that my history professor had assigned for homework, I cried. Which word in the sentence is the best clue to defining the word tome?

normally
books
history
professor

Read the sentence from the war of the worlds. i turned, and as i did so the screw must have come out, for the lid of the cylinder fell upon the gravel with a ringing concussion. which option is the accurate synonym of the word concussion as it is used in the sentence? explosion disruption crash interruption