The correct answer should be Find the meaning of the word "terminating" in an online dictionary.
Finding it in an online dictionary would be rather easy and quick, while it would also be the most correct since the world does not have a polysemic meaning in this context. Context can be tricky while finding antonyms would not be that useful.
As we settled in to the new ship, tension began to mount. Emphasis on “tension began to mount.”
The figurative language used in the excerpt "The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds" is the <u>paradox</u>.
The paradox connects in the same situation two opposite things in a construct phrase that together acquires sense: although it seems more logical that when knowledge increases, ignorance reduces or fades away, the meaning of this sentence is that the more we know, the more we discover that yet we have much to learn; Then, the connection of the increasing knowledge with the unfolding ignorance makes sense.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" explores a particular kind of transformation: aging. The story reminds us that physical changes are necessarily accompanied by personality changes: older people tend to be less lively and more set in their ways, while younger people tend to be emotional and eager to learn.
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