F colorless
Incorrect. The narrator's description of her mother contrasts between water that is dead and water that is alive. This message is suggestive of movement and change, not color. Easy elimination.
G obsolete
Incorrect. Obsolete indicates something that is outdated. It does not relate to the contrast being made in the passage between movement and the lack of movement. This should be another simple elimination.
H stagnant
Correct. In this context, “dead” (line 79) refers to stagnant water, or the kind that doesn't move and sustain life.
“forever moving, changing and going, yet always retaining some essential part of her being, recognizable and intact in spite of all the places she has been. In this, she is like water, not dead water but fearsomely alive”
J frozen
Incorrect. Trap answer! Even though “frozen” can imply a lack of movement, “stagnant” creates a better contrast with water that is “alive.”In the context of water, “stagnant” suggests a lack of movement, to the extent of being unhealthy and unable to sustain life , whereas “frozen” is suggestive of a different state.
