Tom was a trifle disconcerted. The basin was refilled, and this time he stood over it a little while, gathering resolution took in a big breath and began. When he entered the kitchen presently, with both eyes shut and groping for the towel with his hands, an honorable testimony of suds
and water was dripping from his face. But when he emerged from the towel
, he was not yet satisfactory, for the clean territory stopped short at
his chin and his jaws, like a mask; below and beyond this line there was a dark expanse of unirrigated soil that spread downward in front and
backward around his neck. Mary took him in hand, and when she was done with him he was a man and a brother, without distinction of color,
and his saturated hair was neatly brushed, and its short curls wrought into a dainty and symmetrical general effect. [He privately smoothed out
the curls,
with labor and difficulty, and plastered his hair close down to his head; for he held curls to be efferninate, and his own filled his life
with bitterness.) Then Mary got out a suit of his clothing that had been used only on Sundays during two years-they were simply called his
"other clothes"-and so by that we know the size of his wardrobe. The girl "put him to rights" after he had dressed himself; she buttoned his
neat roundabout up to his chin, turned his vast shirt collar down over his shoulders, brushed him off and crowned him with his speckled straw
hat. He now looked exceedingly improved and uncomfortable. He was fully as uncomfortable as he looked; for there was a restraint about
whole clothes and cleanliness that galled him. He hoped that Mary would forget his shoes, but the hope was blighted; she coated them
thoroughly with tallow, as was the custom, and brought them out. He lost his
temper and said he was always being made to do everything he
didn't want to do
Identify the word that best describes Tom Sawyer as he is depicted in this excerpt.
(4 points)
O a
Excited
Oь
Stubborn
Ос
Desperate
Od
Jovial

Based on the root word what is the definition of imperceptible

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