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from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Panting with eagerness, and struggling to suppress my hopes, I hurried home, and rushed up stairs to my room,-having first provided myself with a candle, though it was scarcely twilight yet, then, shut and bolted the door, determined to tolerate no interruption, and sitting down before the table, opened out my prize and delivered myself up to its perusal-first, hastily turning over the leaves and snatching a sentence here and there, and then, setting myself steadily to read it through.
I have it now before me; and though you could not of course, peruse it with half the interest that I did, I know you would not be satisfied with an abbreviation of its contents and you shall have the whole, save, perhaps, a few passages here and there of merely temporal interest to the writer, or such as would serve to encumber the story rather than elucidate it. It begins somewhat abruptly, thus-but we will reserve its commencement for another chapter.
Dictionary
encumber v. 1. to stop 2. to cram or fill 3. to burden
Which word means the same as encumber as it is used in the second paragraph?
1. delay
3. inconvenience
2 hinder
4. prohibit
Panting with eagerness, and struggling to suppress my hopes, I hurried home, and rushed up stairs to my room,-having first provided myself with a candle, though it was scarcely twilight yet, then, shut and bolted the door, determined to tolerate no interruption, and sitting down before the table, opened out my prize and delivered myself up to its perusal-first, hastily turning over the leaves and snatching a sentence here and there, and then, setting myself steadily to read it through.
I have it now before me; and though you could not of course, peruse it with half the interest that I did, I know you would not be satisfied with an abbreviation of its contents and you shall have the whole, save, perhaps, a few passages here and there of merely temporal interest to the writer, or such as would serve to encumber the story rather than elucidate it. It begins somewhat abruptly, thus-but we will reserve its commencement for another chapter.
Dictionary
encumber v. 1. to stop 2. to cram or fill 3. to burden
Which word means the same as encumber as it is used in the second paragraph?
1. delay
3. inconvenience
2 hinder
4. prohibit
Answers
GPT-4o mini
In the context of the second paragraph from "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," the word "encumber" is used to mean something that would burden or make the story more difficult to follow or less clear. Among the options provided, the word that most closely aligns with this meaning is:
**2. hinder.**
"Hinder" suggests making something more difficult or obstructed, which fits with the author's intent to avoid including passages that would encumber the story.
**2. hinder.**
"Hinder" suggests making something more difficult or obstructed, which fits with the author's intent to avoid including passages that would encumber the story.