A. Uses the vocab word incorrectly. ‘Exploit’ means to take advantage of which does not make sense in the context of the sentence (the correct word for that sentence is probably ‘explosion’).
B. Is correct because ‘esteem’ means to hold respect for.
Answer:
“TRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”
Explanation:
According to the excerpt from "The Tell-tale Heart", the narrator tries to convince the readers that he is not a mad man, even though his words and behavior seem to prove otherwise.
The narrator asserts that although he is nervous, he isn't a madman and it is buttressed in his statement where he said, “TRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”
