Question

Choose the meaning of the bold word for questions 1–4.

1. He had left school in junior high, ostensibly because his mother was ill. (“Delfino II: Diez in the Desert")
oddly
surely
fortunately
supposedly

2. And I throbbed with a burning desire / To travel this immensity. (“Your World")
monstrosity
vastness
world
infinity

3. [T]he Last Poets embodied black power. (“Hip-Hop Planet")
enabled
exploded
weakened
personified

Answer 1

1. ostensibly / supposedly
2. immensity / vastness
3. embodied / personified

Answer 2

1. Supposedly: used when saying what many people say or believe is true, especially when you disagree with them. "Supposedly, she is a rich woman."

2. Vastness: the quality of being extremely big. "The vastness of the universe."

3. Personified: To personify means 1. to think of or represent a quality or thing as a person. 2. to represent a particular quality or thing by having a lot of tha quality or by being a typical example of that thing. "The president seemed to personify American people in general."