Read the excerpt from "The People Could Fly.”"Keep that thing quiet,” called the Overseer. He pointed his finger at the babe. The woman scrunched low. The Driver cracked his whip across the babe anyhow. The babe hollered like any hurt child, and the woman fell to the earth.
“Scrunched low” means the woman lowered or bent her body toward the ground. The choice that matches this meaning is “bent.”
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