“Smacked” and “bumped” share the denotative meaning of hitting something or someone. But “smacked” implies a greater intensity of the contact whereas “bumped” seems milder and more accidental.
Read the following passage.
My grandmother is thrifty. She never throws out old clothes and saves all her jars to reuse as glasses.
How would the meaning of the sentence change if the author used the word “cheap” instead of word “thrifty”?
A
The writer would seem unafraid.
B
The grandmother would seem unknown.
C
The writer would seem seem uncertain.
D
The grandmother would seem ungenerous.