Answer:
The best definition for the words remove as used in this passage is <em>D): distance between two things.</em>
Explanation:
The word <em>remove</em> has more than one meaning, but in order to know which one to use we should look at the context; that means the rest of the sentence. In this case, we can see that <em>short</em> is an adjective that affects the word <em>remove</em>, it is a characteristic of it, so <em>remove</em>, in this case, is a <em>noun</em>, not an action. Then, the paragraph continues: "<em>was an officer in the uniform of his rank, armed.</em>", that means we are talking about places, distances, and there we have our answer. The option that best fits the meaning of the word remove, in this case, is D because is the one that refers to distance.
