Read the excerpt from Act I of Hamlet . Horatio: Two nights together had these gentlemen, Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch, In the dead vast and middle of the night, Been thus encounter’d : a figure like your father, Which words or phrases are denotations of the underlined word? Choose two correct answers.

In this passage, “encounter’d” means that the watchmen came across or met the figure. “Came upon” and “met with” express that meaning. “Unexpected” describes something that may accompany an encounter, while “surprise” and “conflict” are not the word’s meaning here.

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