The director's instructions to her actors were spare but illuminating. With a phrase or a gesture she could check a performance veering toward melodrama and pull it back to something truer.
As used in the text, what does the word "check" most nearly mean?
- A
examine
- B
pay for
- C
mark with a tick
- Dcheck_circle
restrain
Explanation
She arrests a performance that is veering off course and "pulls it back," so "check" means to restrain or hold back, not to inspect, pay, or mark.