I NEED HELP PLEASE !Read this excerpt The First Men in the Moon For my own part a vivid dream has come to my help, and I see, almost as plainly as though I had seen it in actual
fact, a blue-lit shadowy disheveled Cavor struggling in the grip of these insect Selenites, struggling ever more
desperately and hopelessly as they press upon him, shouting, expostulating, perhaps even at last fighting, and
being forced backwards step by step out of all speech or sign of his fellows, for evermore into the Unknown-into
the dark, into that silence that has no end
What is the meaning of the bold word, expostulating, as it is used above?
examining something
arguing against something
shouting with joy
surrendering to someone