The biographer credits her subject's success to a kind of stubborn patience. Where his rivals chased fashion, he simply waited — trusting that work which answered to his own standards would, in time, find its public.
As used in the text, what does the phrase "answered to" most nearly mean?
- A
matched the description of
- Bcheck_circle
satisfied the standards of
- C
replied to in conversation
- D
was accountable to
Explanation
His work satisfied his own standards; "answered to" means measured up to or satisfied the standards of, not the dialogue, accountability, or matching senses.