Answer:
a certain status or appearance
Explanation:
i got it right
#3 i believe. It is the only answer that isn't too informal and also flows/transitions well into the paragraph.
It should be Blending for PA instruction or verbalizing words
What it means is that he wouldn't have been able to get where he got if it hadn't been for the scientific achievements of his predecessors. If it hadn't been for these "giants" that enabled him to see so far, he wouldn't have been able to make all the discoveries that he did. For those coming after him, he was a giant that enabled them, and so laws and theories and scientific knowledge always increases based on the knowledge before it.
The author is using the meter to make the poem sound like a military soldier chant.