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The vacation had the opposite effect on lim. He despised the upcoming days and was depressed at the though of his recent break-up. Although he marched into work fifteen minutes early on Monday morning, he was feeling very blue.

A

energetic

B

dispirited

C

indigo

D

rejuvenated

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The correct Answer is:
B

To approach this question, consider the context clues. Vacation is supposed to replenish and relax you, but it had an opposite result. Words like despised and depressed make it easy to guess at Jim's condition. Although is a containing word, so how he feels must contrqadict his gettin to work early and prepared. (C) refers to the actual color blue, so we can eliminate this. and then (A) and (D) are antonyms to what the writer is trying to convey.
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