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Verbal·Craft and Structure·Words in Context
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The following text is from Lilliam Rivera’s 2020 novel Never Look Back. The text describes the narrator looking around his father’s apartment.

Pops’s pride and joy is his wall of towering bookshelves. He once said you can tell a man’s worth by the number of books he owns. I guess this means Pops is overflowing with riches because ever since I can remember I was never without a book within reach.

(c)2020 by Lilliam Rivera
As used in the text, what does the word “tell” most nearly mean?
A
Urge
B
Love
C
Educate
D
Judge