Question

WORLD LIT 10TH GRADE

An asylum-seeker in Tijuana shows the number she was given that corresponds with her name in a notebook managed by Mexican officials in Tijuana. It's a way of creating a line of sorts for the thousands of migrants amassed, waiting to cross. If your number is called, you can go up to the border to U.S. officials and ask for asylum.



What is the BEST definition for the word amassed as it is used in the passage?


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An asylum-seeker in Tijuana shows the number she was given that corresponds with her name in a notebook managed by Mexican officials in Tijuana. It's a way of creating a line of sorts for the thousands of migrants amassed, waiting to cross. If your number is called, you can go up to the border to U.S. officials and ask for asylum.



What is the BEST definition for the word amassed as it is used in the passage?


to have built a large, heavy structure for the prevention of travel


weight of something heavy


gathered together or assembled a large group


a meeting for religious reasons

Answer 1

The definition for the word “amassed” as used in the passage would be gathered together or assembled a large group.

The context of this word is given in the passage where, using context clues, we can infer what the definition is. The phrases “…thousands of migrants” and “…waiting to cross” both show that the word amassed might mean the group accumulated in a large amount. The context of the word amassed automatically rules the choices “weight of something heavy” and “a meeting for religious reasons” to be incorrect because the passage didn’t have anything to do with weight and nothing in terms of religion was mentioned.

The best definition for the word amassed as it is used in the passage is “gathered together or assembled a large group.”