Question

In this excerpt from "Colonialism in the United States" by Henry C. Lodge, which word is closest in meaning to the word indelibly?

Long after the world to which it belonged has vanished, a habit of thought will live on, indelibly imprinted upon a race or nation, like the footprint of some extinct beast or bird upon a piece of stone.

A- Forcefully
B- mysteriously
C-permanently
D- Vaguely

Answer 1

C, because indelibly means never forgotten
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Answer 2

Answer: C) permanently.

Explanation: the denotation of a word is its literal meaning, the definition that we can find in a dictionary, a word can have several denotations (or definitions). In the given excerpt from "Collonialism in the United States" by Henry C. Lodge, the closest meaning to the word "indelibly" is the corresponding to option C: permanently, because it is comparing it to the footprint of some extinct beast upon a piece of stone (which is permanent).