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"It was perfectly clear to me what I ought to do. I ought to walk up to within, say, twenty-five yards of the elephant and test his behavior."

The words "perfectly," "say," and "test" support what type of word choices?

Formal Domain specific Informal Precise

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Precise - hope this helps
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Precise

Step-by-step explanation:

The speaker sounds accurate. " Perfectly clear": Perfectly premodifies clear , so it emphasises its meaning. It is as if the speaker meant " crystal clear". "say", this word comes before the measure; it is giving the accurate and exact distance to the animal. "test" expresses the speaker's objective. To test the elephant he / she has to be careful and his / her procedure has to be exact.

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