A - Economical
The other words: cheat, penny-pinching, and tight fisted all have negative connotations with both the reader and the writer. "Ecomonimal' has a much more positive connotation.
1. expensively (adjective describing "dressed")
2. invaluable (extremely helpful)
3. financial (describing business in adjective form)
4. objections (to disagree)
I believe the answer is b.
<span>The ejected parachutist was the dead man in Chapter 7 of the Lord of the Flies.
The man got ejected from a plane when it exploded. He landed on top of the mountain tangled in his parachute. Strong winds in the mountain made his corpse move forward in a bowing position then return to its original pose. This happened repeatedly.
The boys saw the corpse and its movements and they thought they were confronted by a live, predatory monster.
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