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Use context clues to determine the meaning of indifferently as it is used in paragraph 19 of the excerpt from Ten Days in a Mad-House. Write your definition here, and identify clues that help you figure out its meaning

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As the word "indifferently" is used in "Ten Days in a Mad-House," we can determine it means "without any interest or concern" with the help of context clues.

What are context clues?

Context clues are words or phrases used by writers that help us understand the meaning of other words or phrases. Examples of context clues are the following:

  • Explanations
  • Synonyms
  • Antonyms

For this question, we must analyze the context clues in "Ten Days in a Mad-House" to determine the meaning of "indifferently." However, we do not have the excerpt here, and we were unable to find it online. As we found the whole story online, we could see that the word "indifferently" is used only twice:

  • "That's no difference; if you won't take what I offer you can do without," he said indifferently.
  • Everywhere was a sprinkling of well-dressed, well-fed officers watching the scene passively and almost indifferently.

In both cases, there is no difference in the meaning of "indifferently". Both passages show us that the characters are not concerned or interested in something. In the second passage, especially, notice how the officers are described. They do not seem to care at all about what is going on around them.

With the context clues above in mind, we can conclude that indifferently means "without any interest or concern".

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