Question

WThe first day of November was approaching, and it was beginning to get cold, particularly at night. To keep myself from going mad in my isolation, I decided to lead as disciplined a life as possible. I still had my watch, the pre-war Omega I treasured as the apple of my eye, along with my fountain pen. They were my sole personal possessions. I conscientiously kept the watch wound and drew up a timetable by it. I lay motionless all day long to conserve what little strength I had left, putting out my hand only once, around midday, to fortify myself with a rusk and a mug of water sparingly portioned out. From early in the morning until I took this meal, as I lay there with my eyes closed, I went over in my mind all the compositions I had ever played, bar by bar. Later, this mental refresher course turned out to have been useful: when I went back to work I still knew my repertory and had almost all of it in my head, as if I had been practising all through the war. Then, from my midday meal until dusk, I systematically ran through the contents of all the books I had read, mentally repeating my English vocabulary. I gave myself English lessons, asking myself questions and trying to answer them correctly and at length


Read the dictionary entry for the word fortify.


fortify \fôr’tә-fī’\ v 1. to secure (a position) 2. to reinforce by adding material 3. to impart physical strength to 4. to give emotional or mental strength; to encourage Choose the definition of the word fortify as it is used in paragraph 2 of The Pianist.


Definition 1


Definition 2


Definition 3

definition 4

Answer 1

Answer:

definition 3

Explanation:

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