Read the excerpt from "digging." the coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft against the inside knee was levered firmly. which idea is typically associated with the word "coarse”? comfort roughness sadness perfection

B) Roughness.

Explanation: the denotation of a word is its literal meaning, the definition that we can find in a dictionary, a word can have several denotations (or definitions). The definition or denotation of the word "coarse" is "rough or harsh in texture" but in the given excerpt from "Digging" it can be interpreted also as ordinary or lacking of refinement, so the correct answer is the corresponding to option B: roughness.

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