Excerpt from The Haunted Man
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2 Redlaw is a teacher of chemistry who often broods over wrongs done him and grief from his past.

3 He is haunted by a spirit, who is not so much a ghost as Redlaw's phantom twin and is "an awful likeness of himself...with his features, and his bright eyes, and his grizzled hair, and dressed in the gloomy shadow of his dress..." This specter appears and proposes to Redlaw that he can allow him to "forget the sorrow, wrong, and trouble you have known...to cancel their remembrance..." Redlaw agrees. However, before the spirit vanishes it imposes an additional consequence: "The gift that I have given you, you shall give again, go where you will."

What is the meaning of the verb broods as it is used in section 2?
2 Redlaw is a teacher of chemistry who often broods over wrongs done him and grief from his past.
A) fondly acknowledge a significant event
B) feel or express violent, uncontrollable anger
C) think deeply about something that makes one unhappy
D) put out of one's mind; cease to think of or consider

The meaning of the verb "broods" as used in section 2 is "think deeply about something that makes one unhappy," as expressed in option C and explained below.

The meaning of "brood"

When a person broods, that means he or she sits in silence for quite a long time thinking about things that make him or her worried, sad, or even upset.

That is precisely the meaning of the verb "broods" as it is used in section 2, when the professor of Chemistry is described as someone who "often broods over wrongs done him and grief from his past." He is thinking about things that make him unhappy.

With the information above in mind, we can select option C as the correct answer.

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