Read the following sentences. The teacher's jovial manner instantly put the fearful new students at ease. Before long, many of them were actively participating and answering discussion questions. What is the denotation of the word jovial? happy and friendly generous and shy forceful and bossy grumpy and hostile

The answer is: happy and friendly.

The denotative meaning of a word is the literal sense of the word, exactly as you would find it, for example, on a dictionary.

The denotation of the word jovial is, indeed, happy and friendly. In the sentence above, the teaching style of the teacher is said to be joyful and welcoming, that is to say, jovial, so that the new students immediately felt at ease in this classroom and even felt comfortable enough to participate in discussion.

happy and friendly should be the correct answer is she is easing their fear