When a sentence in a written passage contains an ambiguous word,

a. people typically do not notice the ambiguity until they have finished reading the entire sentence.
b. people apparently access only the best-known meaning of that word.
c. people are highly unlikely to notice that the word may be ambiguous.
d. people typically pause while they process the ambiguous word.

Ans: d

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