What is the denotative meaning of detritus as it is used in the sentence below?
It is dumbfounding to think that each piece of detritus in a shooting star could be the size of a small rock otherwise known as a meteoroid.
A. backlog
B. accumulation
C. silt
D. matter
The answer is matter
it’s matter?
What do you think?
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