GRE Sample Test 1 Verbal Reasoning 1

The transition especially tells you to stay in the same direction as the clue “willingness to reject prevailing feminine roles and to travel to foreign lands alone.” Thus, she has a bold spirit. Only adventurous and doughty mean bold. Although she is traveling alone, there is nothing to support that she is lonely, as forlorn and desolate suggest. Magnanimous and bellicose do not fit.