Question

3.2 Read this dictionary entry for the word foreign.

foreign adjective 1. located outside of one's own country 2. concerned with another country or area 3. unfamiliar or not known to a person 4. located in an abnormal place.

Which definition of the word foreign is used in the sentence below? It serves the same purpose of a cough, which is to remove foreign bodies and irritants from the body.

A. Definition 1
B. Definition 2
C. Definition 3
D. Definition 4​

Answer 1

C. Definition 3
Because when using the word foreign in the sentence it is talking about unfamiliar germs from the body. The body is a normal place to find germs and it’s not talking about a country at all so it is not A,B or D.