Question

When she realized that she had missed the bus, Jia became distraught. She paced back and forth, wringing her hands and trying not to cry. There was no doubt about it—she would be late for her meeting and might lose her job as a result of her tardiness. Based on context clues in the passage, what is the most likely meaning of distraught? tardy agitated doubtful earnest

Answer 1

I have uploaded a picture of the word distraught in the dictionary. I believe the best answer would be "agitated"

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Answer 2

The most corrective and suitable meaning of distraught is Devastated or Shattered.

It means they were very much disturbed and not able to think properly and not able to focus over the think.Due to the distraught the  girl is so negative and she might lost her job due her tardiness.

She became so negative person in her life and she not like anything and became so much lazy person and might be her ob will be no more with her and there were few opposite of Distraught and that it craziness, concerned and etc.

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