meaning of "difficult for children to enclose their gratitude "

[Monika L.]

Business Idiom in English, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #134 "Ways of thanking", question 9

It's very difficult for children to ......... their gratitude for what their parents have done for them.

(a) show
(b) initiate
(c) enclose
(d) refer

Business Idiom in English, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #134 "Ways of thanking", answer 9

It's very difficult for children to enclose their gratitude for what their parents have done for them.

Correct answer: (c) enclose

Your answer was: incorrect
It's very difficult for children to show their gratitude for what their parents have done for them.
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Can you please explain the meaning of the sentence because I have interpreted it differently.

Monika

[Lucien_Librarian]

Hello Monika

I think this must be an error in the test because "enclose" wouldn't fit here in my opinion, too. "Disclose" would be another option but of those given I'd have chosen "show" myself.

Moderators: Can someone confirm this or enlighten us, why it is enclose??

L.L.

[Pamela]

Hi L.L.
I agree with you. The correct answer should be 'show'(in the meaning of 'to express')

[Yankee]

I agree. The correct answer should be 'show'.

Amy

[Prezbucky]

indeed
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[Alan]

Absolutely.
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[Conchita]

Definitely!

(You thought you were going to have the last word, eh?)

[Prezbucky]

darn it

well there is another word to use:

amen
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