Question

Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given.
Direction for questions 84 and 85: In the following questions, sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word. Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative, out of the four as your answer.
The two travllers may have chosen _______ routes across the continent, but the starting point was the same for each.

• A. coinciding
• B. direct
• C. charted
• D. divergent

Answer 1

The correct option is D divergent

Option (4) is correct. Divergent means proceeding from one point in different directions. The phrase may have and the term but sets up a contrast between the two clauses of the sentence. The fact that the travellers took distinctly different trips is contrasted with the fact that they left from the same place.