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Instructions: Each of the following items is followed by four words or group of words. Fill in the blank with the appropriate word or group of words.
The carriage foundered in a snowdrift and it took two hours to ____ it.
Instructions: Each of the following items is followed by four words or group of words. Fill in the blank with the appropriate word or group of words.
The carriage foundered in a snowdrift and it took two hours to ____ it.
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Think about what action is needed to free something stuck in the snow.
Updated On: Jul 16, 2026
- exert
- pillage
- exacerbate
- extricate
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The Correct Option is D
Solution and Explanation
This question checks whether you understand what physically needs to happen to a carriage that has become stuck in a snowdrift, and which verb correctly names that action.
- Exert: this means to apply effort or force, or to bring something to bear, but it needs an object like "exert pressure" or "exert oneself." Used alone as "to exert it" referring to the carriage does not make sense, since you cannot exert a carriage.
- Pillage: this means to rob a place using violence, typically during war or conflict, which has no connection to a carriage stuck in snow.
- Exacerbate: this means to make an existing problem worse. Spending two hours to make the carriage's situation worse would be an odd and illogical goal, so this does not fit the sentence's intent.
- Extricate: this means to free something or someone from a constraint, difficulty, or entanglement. A carriage stuck in a snowdrift is exactly the kind of situation that requires extricating, freeing it from being trapped, which matches the sentence perfectly.
The word that correctly describes freeing the trapped carriage is extricate, so option D is correct.
Let's summarize:
- Extricate means to free something from a difficult or entangled situation, precisely describing rescuing a stuck carriage.
- Exert needs a direct object like effort or pressure and cannot stand alone describing the carriage itself.
- Pillage and exacerbate are both clearly illogical, since robbing or worsening the situation are not the goal of spending two hours working on the carriage.
For this kind of question, visualize the real physical scenario described and pick the verb that names the sensible action a person would actually take.
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