Question

Excerpt from The Peachtree Road Race: A Race Like No Other

David Matherne
However, in the sport of road racing, common people and novice joggers can lace up and be in the same race as the world-class
runners competing to win it all.
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in this sentence from the first paragraph of the passage, how does the author help a reader understand the meaning of the
word novice?
A)
by including a definition in the senter
by in
B)
by giving examples of novice joggers
by repeating the word in surrounding sente
D)
by comparing novice joggers to world-class runners

Answer 1

Answer:D) by comparing novice joggers to world-class runners.

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

D) By comparing novice joggers to world-class runners

Step-by-step explanation:

As the author says that common people and novice joggers can participate in the rice alongside the world-class runners, we can assume that the word novice means new to a certain situation; without a lot of experience. The use of comparison (or, in this case, contrasting, as world-class runners and novice joggers are opposite) often helps us understand the meaning of words we may not understand isolated.