Question

Which word in the sentence is most clearly used denotatively?

Fred watched as the customer grabbed his receipt and slammed the door as he stormed out.

Answer 1

Watched

Step-by-step explanation:

Watched has literally no emotion in it.

However, grabbed, slammed, and stormed could be wrote with the connotation of anger, but watched simply has no emotion in it. If the writer would have wrote 'stared,' that could have meant shock.

In any case, the answer is watched.