Question

It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death. In spite of my dead father, in spite of having been a child in a symmetrical garden of Hai Feng, was I—now—going to die? Considering its prefix, syntax, and context, what does inexorable mean in this excerpt from "The Garden of Forking Paths"? necessary terrible ultimate unstoppable

Answer 1

The best option seems to be "unstoppable", taking into consideration the prefix, syntax, and context.

Inexorable has the prefex in-, meaning not. So death is something that is not-exorable. The adjective exorable comes from the Latin word exorare, which means "to entreat". Therefore, if a person is inexorable, it is impossible to persuade them by supplicating or entreating. When it comes to something such as an event, it means there is no escaping it, no way to stop it, nothing anyone could say to make it different.

Death is, thus, an inexorable (unstoppable) event.

Answer 2

The answer to this question is D.