Question

(MC)Read the sentence and answer the question that follows:

The commercial showed an enormously tall basketball player easily changing a light bulb in a ceiling light fixture.

Based on the rest of this sentence, what is the best meaning of the word enormously in this sentence?

Barely
Extremely
Overwhelmingly
Unusually (My Choice Can't Decide)

Answer 1

Aside from checking in the dictionary or from your own vocabulary, you can also know the meaning of the word through context clues. These context clues might be the words "basketball player" and "easily changing a light bulb". This must mean that enormously is synonymous to extremely.