Based on the context of each excerpt from n. scott momaday's the way to rainy mountain, choose the word that most closely matches the meaning of the bolded word.
tiles
pensive
fragile
antagonist
lobby
pairs
whatever they were in the mountains, they could be no more. however tenuous their well-being, however much they had suffered and would suffer again, they had found a way out of the wilderness.
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in order to consummate the ancient sacrifice—to impale the head of a buffalo bull upon the medicine tree—a delegation of old men journeyed into texas, there to beg and barter for an animal from the goodnight herd.
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my grandmother was spared the humiliation of those high gray walls by eight or ten years, but she must have known from birth the affliction of defeat, the dark brooding of old warriors.
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some of them painted their faces and carried the scars of old and cherished enmities.
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