The author used imagery in this excerpt!
I've seen you ask the question, at least 4 times....what ever the answer is still A.
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Explanation: According to the context of the previous statement, the most probable meaning of the word permeate would be "saturated"; since the meaning of the word permeate is the action of penetrating a body or passing through it. In the previous text the cotton clothing is soaked with water, this means that the water permeated and penetrated the clothes, to the point that it could saturate it with this liquid.
A Fahrenheit has 451 novel
