Critical Reading>Sentence Completions
Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning ofthe sentence as a whole.
Although often victims of circumstance, the heroines of Shakespearean comedy tend to be ------- women, usually ready with a clever stratagem or verbal ploy for getting out of a difficult situation.
(A) imperious
(B) suffering
(C) excitable
(D) resourceful
(E) precocious