Question

"He often the numbers. False claims are not going to help. Honesty trust", said the manager.
Choose the option with the correct order of words to fill the blanks.

• A. exaggerates; engenders
• B. excels; encourages
• C. aggravates; alleviates
• D. diminishes; eliminates

Hint:

Read the sentence for tone: the manager is criticizing a habit of inflating figures, then praising honesty for building something positive.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

Step 1: Understanding the Question.
The manager is scolding someone for a habit involving numbers, and then says false claims will not help, so the first blank must name a negative habit connected to false claims. The second sentence says honesty does something positive to trust, so the second blank must be a positive verb that fits with trust.

Step 2: Key Approach.
Read each sentence on its own before picking a pair. The first blank needs a word close in meaning to "inflates" or "overstates", because that links directly to "false claims are not going to help." The second blank needs a word that means "creates" or "gives rise to", because honesty is being praised for building trust, not hurting it.

Step 3: Detailed Explanation.
Check option (A): "exaggerates; engenders". "He often exaggerates the numbers" fits perfectly with "False claims are not going to help", since exaggerating numbers is a form of stretching the truth. "Honesty engenders trust" is also correct, since "engenders" means "gives rise to" or "creates", so honesty creates trust. Both blanks fit.
Check option (B): "excels; encourages". "He often excels the numbers" is not standard English; "excel" is normally used as "excels at" or "excels in", not "excels the numbers". This option fails grammatically.
Check option (C): "aggravates; alleviates". "Aggravates the numbers" is an odd, unnatural phrase since you aggravate a problem or a situation, not a set of numbers. Also, "honesty alleviates trust" is wrong in meaning, since "alleviate" means to reduce or ease something negative, but trust is positive and is not something you want to ease or lessen.
Check option (D): "diminishes; eliminates". "He often diminishes the numbers" would mean he understates them, which does not connect to the warning about "false claims", since false claims are usually about inflating facts, not shrinking them. Also, "honesty eliminates trust" is the opposite of the intended meaning, since honesty should build trust, not remove it.

Step 4: Final Answer.
Option (A) is the only pair where both blanks make logical and grammatical sense: "exaggerates" links to the warning about false claims, and "engenders" correctly shows honesty creating trust. \[ \boxed{\text{exaggerates; engenders}} \]