Read the excerpt below from "The White Company" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and answer the question that follows. The landlady looked at him in a motherly way and shook her head. "You have had no great truck with the world," she said, "or you would have learned that it is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air." Based on its use in this context, what can you infer is the meaning of the word truck?

a. dealings

b. peace

c. vehicle

d. travel

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Rachael Vargas

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3 December, 23:27

Read the excerpt below from "The White Company" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and answer the question that follows. The landlady looked at him in a motherly way and shook her head. "You have had no great truck with the world," she said, "or you would have learned that it is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air." Based on its use in this context, what can you infer is the meaning of the word truck?

a. dealings

b. peace

c. vehicle

d. travel

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Van Hensley · Answer 1

Based on its use in this context, the archaic and old use of the word truck, what I can infer about the meaning of that word is - A) dealings.

Since he had no interaction with the world, he cannot know such things about the small and great men.