Read the excerpt from through the looking glass.

alice stood looking after it, almost ready to cry with vexation at having lost her dear little fellow-traveller so suddenly.

what option accurately defines the noun vexation as it is used in the excerpt?

a state of reduced circumstances
a state of extreme anger
a state of joy
a state of aggravation

a state of reduced circumstances

Explanation:

vexation means the state of being annoyed, frustrated, or worried. In this case she felt frustrated that´s mean with reduced circumstances to avoid  her dear little fellow-traveller

A state of aggravation

Explanation:

Looking at the surrounding information of the word "vexation", or context clues, we can infer that "vexation" has a very negative connotation: Alice was about to cry at having lost a person she appreaciated! so we can discard option 1 and 3.

And since the clues in the text are not enough, our best option is to look the word in the dictionary. Vexation refers to a state of being worried, frustrated, annoyed or troubled, similar to the noun "aggravation" which refers to a state of annoyance, exasperation or exacerbation or the process of making a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling worse, such as the bad circumstance of the "dear little fellow-traveler" leaving.

i believe that one is charlie,my friend

d.) then bernice winced as marjorie tossed her own hair over her shoulders and began to twist it slowly into two long blond braids until in her cream-colored negligée she looked like a delicate painting of some saxon princess. fascinated, bernice watched the braids grow. heavy and luxurious they were, moving under the supple fingers like restive snakes—and to bernice remained this relic and the curling iron and a to-morrow full of eyes.