Adjective? I can't tell which word is bolded but you commented beautiful it would also help if you gave the answer choices.
It means that there was a deal between two persons who negotiated on something and they were very close to have a mutual consent say, on the price, but they eventually did not. So the deal was off.
The (apostrophe) corrected text is given in the highlighted text as follows:
"I peered out the window at the lengthening shadows of the trees. We had been on the road for six hours, but it felt like sixty given the appalling surface. I was now worried that we wouldn’t arrive before nightfall, and my fears <u>weren't </u>helped by the drivers eccentric behavior. Although it was dark, he still hadn’t turned the vans lights on.
Through my translator, I enquired why, yet I immediately wished I hadn't. There weren’t any.
Fearing that we might all have to spend a night in the jungle, I ventured another question beloved of children everywhere. “Are we nearly there yet?” Just one more hour was the reply.
I checked my watch. Sunset was in 10 minutes. Fifty minutes on an unmade trail at 40 miles per hour. In the jungle. In the dark. Just great."
<h3>What is an Apostrophe?</h3>
In contractions, an apostrophe is a punctuation symbol that stands in for missing letters. The apostrophe replaces "wi" in the contraction "we'll," which means "we shall."
Additionally, it might denote possession, as in "Jane's automobile." The apostrophe denotes that Mary owns the vehicle.
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