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Select the correct answer.
Read the adapted excerpt from "Araby" by James Joyce.
I could not find any sixpenny entrance and, fearing that the bazaar would be closed, I passed in quickly through a turnstile, handing a shilling to
a weary-looking man. I found myself in a big hall girded at half its height by a gallery, surrounded by darkness in the greater part of the hall.
Nearly all the stalls were closed.
Based on the context clues, which word best defines the word girded?
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shocked
ОВ. .
overwhelmed
OC impinged
OD. encompassed
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Answer:

D. encompassed

Explanation:

From the excerpt given from "Araby" by James Joyce, it is narrated that the narrator while fearing that the bazaar would be closed quickly entered by paying a shilling to a weary-looking man.

It is described that the hall was "girded" at half its height by a gallery and the word "girded" means encompassed because it is the closest in meaning.

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