Question

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.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's works will be ____ by every lover of liberal thought and they will bring home to him how restrictive freedom is in the Russian system.

• A. rejected
• B. skimmed
• C. compiled
• D. perused

Hint:

Think of a word meaning to read something thoroughly and carefully, in order to truly understand it.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is D

Another way to approach this is to focus on the clause that follows the blank, "they will bring home to him how restrictive freedom is," since this tells us exactly what effect the reading must have, and then check which verb can produce that effect.

For a reader to have something "brought home" to them, meaning fully realized and understood, they must engage deeply with the material, not glance at it or merely gather it.

Rejected fails immediately, since a rejected work cannot bring any message home to anyone, the person never truly engages with it.

Skimmed fails too, a quick surface level read rarely brings deep realizations home, it only gives a rough impression.

Compiled fails on grammar and logic, gathering works together is a physical or editorial act, not a reading act that leads to insight.

Perused succeeds, since a careful, attentive reading is precisely what allows a reader to have an idea, here the restrictiveness of a political system, brought home to them clearly.

This confirms perused, option D, as the word that logically completes the sentence's cause and effect relationship.