Abysmal is an adjective which refers to something that is extremely bad or terrible. It think the correct answer would be the first sentence. The sentence that uses the word correctly would be:
<span>While breaking one pencil during the SATs is bad luck, breaking six pencils is downright abysmal.</span>
The error presented in this sentence is that the antecedent of the pronoun “it” is not clear stated. To my mind, the pronoun "it" can refer to “spare time" or “reading”.
Answer:
Creon exiled Oedipus from Thebes after Oedipus killed his father and married his mother
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