Question

Based on the excerpt, what is the contextual meaning of the word jostle? Although, as we walked to the Cova through the tough part of town, walking in the dark, with light and singing coming out of the wine-shops, and sometimes having to walk into the street when the men and women would crowd together on the sidewalk so that we would have had to jostle them to get by, we felt held together by there being something that had happened that they, the people who disliked us, did not understand.

A.to struggle or compete forcefully for
B.to dodge or go around
C.to quarrel or argue with
D.to push, elbow, or bump against

Answer 1

The definition of "jostle" is D, to push, elbow, or bump against.



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Answer 2

Based on this excerpt, the contextual meaning of the word jostle is D: to push, elbow, or bump against.

Step-by-step explanation:

I chose D because the whole concept of the sentence is to show how, although they found obstacles, like men and women crowded together on the sidewalk, they managed to get by and stick together by pushing them, by making the space for themselves. In this context, the word jostle is to push, to bump against, to elbow; they needed to make space in order to keep walking.