The professor's lecture style was famously dry. He delivered even his wittiest observations in the same flat, faintly skeptical tone, leaving students to discover for themselves that the joke had already passed.
As used in the text, what does the word "dry" most nearly mean?
- A
thirsty
- Bcheck_circle
lacking emotion or expression
- C
lacking moisture
- D
boringly unfunny
Explanation
He delivers wit in a flat tone — the "deadpan" sense of dry humor, distinct from "boringly unfunny" (he is witty), the literal moisture sense, or "thirsty."