Question
What is the meaning of the word aggression as it is used in paragraph 2? here's paragraph 2
Aesop is attributed as the original author of the phrase “united we stand, divided we fall.” In his fable “The Four Oxen and the Lion,” a lion stalks a group of oxen. The oxen stay clustered together, with tails pointed toward each other, and their horns pointed outward as protection from the lion’s aggression. After an argument, the oxen separate, and the lion attacks them one by one. The moral of the fable is that we are stronger together and safer from our foes when we present a united front—united we stand, divided we fall. One would be wrong to think this was Aesop’s only fable on the theme of strength in unity. He reiterated the sentiment in the lesser known story “Bundle of Sticks,” where a father has his sons try to break a bundle of sticks. When they are unable to break the bundle, he has each son break a single stick individually. His lesson was that the sons, like the sticks, were unbreakable as a group, but vulnerable on their own. Clearly, any individual act can be less effective than a group effort.
temper
hostility
placidness
gentleness
Aesop is attributed as the original author of the phrase “united we stand, divided we fall.” In his fable “The Four Oxen and the Lion,” a lion stalks a group of oxen. The oxen stay clustered together, with tails pointed toward each other, and their horns pointed outward as protection from the lion’s aggression. After an argument, the oxen separate, and the lion attacks them one by one. The moral of the fable is that we are stronger together and safer from our foes when we present a united front—united we stand, divided we fall. One would be wrong to think this was Aesop’s only fable on the theme of strength in unity. He reiterated the sentiment in the lesser known story “Bundle of Sticks,” where a father has his sons try to break a bundle of sticks. When they are unable to break the bundle, he has each son break a single stick individually. His lesson was that the sons, like the sticks, were unbreakable as a group, but vulnerable on their own. Clearly, any individual act can be less effective than a group effort.
temper
hostility
placidness
gentleness
Answers
GPT-4o mini
In paragraph 2, the word "aggression" refers to the lion's hostile behavior towards the oxen as it attempts to attack them. Therefore, the most suitable synonym for "aggression" from the options provided is **hostility**.