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Choose the meaning of the bold word for questions 1–4.

  1. He had left school in junior high, ostensibly because his mother was ill. (“Delfino II: Diez in the Desert")

oddly

surely

fortunately

supposedly

  1. And I throbbed with a burning desire / To travel this immensity. (“Your World")

monstrosity

vastness

world

infinity

  1. [T]he Last Poets embodied black power. (“Hip-Hop Planet")

enabled

exploded

weakened

personified

Verified Answer :

Tuniss
  1. ostensibly  / supposedly
    2. 
    immensity / vastness
    3. embodied  / personified

1. Supposedly: used when saying what many people say or believe is true, especially when you  disagree with them. "Supposedly, she is a rich woman."

2. Vastness: the quality of being extremely big. "The vastness of the universe."

3. Personified: To personify means 1. to think of or represent a quality or thing as a person. 2. to represent a particular quality or thing by having a lot of tha quality or by being a typical example of that thing. "The president seemed to personify American people in general."