Question

ASAP Read the sentences. The stalk of the plant was thick and tough. The wolf will stalk the weakest deer. Which best contrasts the meanings of the underlined words?

The first word means a part of a plant; the second word means to pursue sneakily.
The first word means a very narrow plant; the second word means to watch.
The first word describes the plant's color; the second word means to befriend.
The first word means upward growth; the second word means to ignore. The word is stalk

Answer 1

I assume you mean "stalk" in both sentences? In the first sentence, the stalk of a plant is like the stem so it is a part of the plant. The seconds use of stalk refers to sneaking and preying on. So your answer would be A.

Answer 2

Answer: A) The first word means a part of a plant; the second word means to pursue sneakily.

Step-by-step explanation: the denotation of a word is its literal meaning, the one that we can find in a dictionary (the antonym of denotation is connotation, which is the meaning given by the context of the word), a word can have different denotations. In the given sentence we can see the example of two differents denotations of the word "stalk" in the first sentence, it means a part of a plant and in the second sentence, it means to pursue sneakily.