Based on the excerpt, what is the contextual meaning of the word jostle? although, as we walked to the cova through the tough part of town, walking in the dark, with light and singing coming out of the wine-shops, and sometimes having to walk into the street when the men and women would crowd together on the sidewalk so that we would have had to jostle them to get by, we felt held together by there being something that had happened that they, the people who disliked us, did not understand. a. to struggle or compete forcefully for b. to dodge or go around c. to quarrel or argue with d. to push, elbow, or bump against

Based on this excerpt, the contextual meaning of the word jostle is D: to push, elbow, or bump against.

Explanation:

I chose D because the whole concept of the sentence is to show how, although they found obstacles, like men and women crowded together on the sidewalk, they managed to get by and stick together by pushing them, by making the space for themselves. In this context, the word jostle is to push, to bump against, to elbow; they needed to make space in order to keep walking.

what was your story about? i remember this from my language arts class in flvs! i had ms. rosemeyer.

the answer is: the start of world war i, and russia’s hopes of benefiting from it

during world war i russian joined due to in their current crisis they were being supported by france and the war was already declared to them by germany, they needed to maintain their political goal and leadership role in the balkans, and is the same feeling that this excerpt evoke the eager of maintain the land value.