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Casius and Brutes cooked a conspiracy to assassinate Caesar.

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Which verb is the standard collocation with "a conspiracy" or "a plot."
  • Prepared
  • Hatched
  • Made
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The Correct Option is B

Solution and Explanation

Step 1: Look for the fixed expression that goes with "conspiracy." English uses "hatch a plot" or "hatch a conspiracy" to describe secretly devising a plan, drawing on the image of an egg hatching into something fully formed. Step 2: "Prepared a conspiracy" and "made a conspiracy" are understandable but not natural collocations, and "cooked" is informal and imprecise here. Step 3: Replacing "cooked" with "hatched" gives the standard idiomatic phrase. \[\boxed{\text{Hatched}}\]
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