find something interesting about what you are doing and focus on that one thing
The only person with the story is you, so we can't answer it without the story.
The diction of Steinbeck here in apparently describing the dustbowl conditions of the Dirty Thirties is speaking of "tenant men" or presumably men who were tenant farmers perhaps who were allowed to live on the land in return for working it and that they "scuffed" their way home indicates that the dust was so thick they had to scuff but also perhaps that since they could barely make a living under the poor agricultural conditions they did not walk confidently but scuffed.
I would go with... B, because it says that he was right below Santa so that is why I would go with that! have a great day!
The formal words should be matched to the less-formal words as follows:
Fat - Corpulent
Fake - Counterfeit
Teacher - Instructor
Speech - Oration
Same - Identical
Distract - Divert
Bit - Modicum
Letter - Missive
Destroy - Annihilate
Garbage - Refuse