|Question 2Verbal

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The following text is from Jacqueline Woodson's 2018 novel Harbor Me. In the novel, the narrator and Esteban are classmates.

An hour after class started on that Friday, Esteban came in, his head down, his hair slicked wet against his forehead, his Yankees cap dripping with rain.
As used in the text, what does the word "started" most nearly mean?
Thought
A
Jumped
B
Enlarged
C
Began
D