Question

Expedite, Hasten, Hurry,
Fill the blank by choosing a word with a meaning similar to that of the words given above.

• A. Accelerate
• B. Retard
• C. Provide
• D. Disable

Hint:

Look for a word that means to make something happen faster, just like expedite, hasten and hurry.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

The sentence gives three words, expedite, hasten and hurry, and asks for a fourth word that carries the same sense. All three words are about speeding up an action, so the blank needs a word with that same speed related sense. Let's go through each choice.

1. Accelerate: this means to make something go faster, which lines up exactly with expedite, hasten and hurry.
2. Retard: this means to hold something back or slow it down, the reverse of what we want.
3. Provide: this means to give or supply something, it has no link to speed at all.
4. Disable: this means to stop something from working, again no link to speed.

Only "accelerate" keeps the same idea of speeding a process up, so it is the word that fits the blank.

Let's summarize:

• Expedite, hasten and hurry all mean to speed something up.
• Retard means the opposite, while provide and disable are unrelated in meaning.

So the correct word for the blank is accelerate.