Which word could replace the underlined word as it is used in the paragraph?

"i →reckon← you can," the old man at the filling station answered when we asked if we could use his telephone. "but i don't know why you can't use that cell phone in your hand, unless the battery is dead. that's the trouble with these fancy new things."

a.
guess

b.
hope

c.
know

d.
doubt

use it to buy the fattest block of cheese

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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