5.1.2 exam: semester exam
based on its context, which is the most precise meaning of the underlined
word?
no one would have believed in the last years of the
nineteenth century that this world was being watched
keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and
yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves
about their various concerns they were scrutinised and
studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a
microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that
swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
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a. examine carefully
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b. take apart
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c. magnify
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d. question