Choose the right description that best captures the meaning of the word,…
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Choose the right description that best captures the meaning of the word,
MARGINALIA:
- A.
marked with pencil and drawn on the roofs of public buildings
- B.
members of a group who do not actually fight but observe combat from outside
- C.
notes written in the margins of a book or documents you have read
- D.
people who have had an experience of border countries and territories
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Correct answer: C
Correct meaning: notes written in the margins of a book or documents you have read
Explanation: Marginalia are reader annotations—comments, brief notes, underlines, or doodles—added in the margins of a text to record reactions, summarize points, or mark important passages.
Why this matches: Marginalia explicitly refers to margin-based annotations made by readers inside books or documents.
Why the other choices are wrong: They describe rooftop markings, observers of combat, or people with border-region experience—none of which relate to written annotations in a text's margins.
Example: She enjoyed reading the marginalia in the antique volume, which revealed past readers' thoughts and reactions.
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