Read the excerpt from chapter 2 of The Awakening. They chatted incessantly: about the things around them; their amusing adventur
e out in the water—it had again assumed its entertaining aspect; about the wind, the trees, the people who had gone to the Chênière; about the children playing croquet under the oaks, and the Farival twins, who were now performing the overture to “The Poet and the Peasant.” What is the correct meaning of the word “assumed” based on its usage in the excerpt? believe in
given up
taken on
left alone
