Read the excerpt from "Lise Marie de Baissac.” In Normandy, Baissac pretended to be a refugee from Paris living in the house of a schoolmaster. There, she helped to set up more resistance groups and organize sabotage actions. Again traveling by bicycle, she maintained secret communications between groups and transported supplies. This was extremely dangerous work. Which best describes the meaning of the underlined word?
In this excerpt, “maintained” means that Baissac continued or kept the secret communications going between resistance groups. So “kept up” is the best match; it does not mean she blocked or argued for the communications.
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