Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

"Yet our priests fast, and inflict on themselves severe punishments, and we are taught to bear our sorrows in silence, and all this is so that the soul may be cleansed."


The verb bear has multiple meanings. Which is the correct meaning for bear as it is used in the context above?


tolerate

support

merit

produce

Answer 1

"bear" our sorrows in silence
the correct meaning for bear as it is used, is to:
A) tolerate

Answer 2

The answer is: tolerate

In this text they are explaining how the soul is clean, there said that they have t suffer severe punishment and that they “are taught to bear our sorrows in silence” meaning that they will not show their sorrows, so they have to “tolerate” it in a quiet way.