The novel's narrator is a study in restraint. Even as catastrophes pile up around her, she records them in a steady, almost clinical voice — as if to insist that the dignity of the telling matters quite as much as the horror of what is told.
As used in the text, what does the word "study" most nearly mean?
- A
library room
- B
preparatory sketch
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exemplary model
- D
course of academic work
Explanation
The narrator is presented as an exemplary case of restraint — "a study in" means an embodiment or exemplar of, not coursework, a sketch, or a room.