After reading the passage, we can choose the following as the best definition of the word "reproach" as it is used in it:
A. disapproval
What is the meaning of "reproach"?
- The noun "reproach" refers to the action of expressing disapproval or disappointment. With this information, we would already be capable of choosing the right answer.
What is the passage?
- The passage we are supposed to analyze here is:
"Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few. –Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson"
- As we can see, Johnson says that authors can usually expect to be praised for their work. But not the lexicographer. A lexicographer's hope is not to be praised, but to escape reproach, that is, to not be the object of others' disapproval.
- With the information above in mind, we can choose letter A as the best option.
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