Directions: Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the given paragraph.

A blind man, having reclaimed (10) ____________ sight as the result of a remarkable operation, confessed the other day that he was so disappointed (11) ____________ the world he saw that he wondered whether he was not (12) ____________ when he was blind. Human beings (13) ____________ of a different appearance and mould from those with which his imagination had (14) ____________ them. Everything apparently, from motor cars to flower gardens, (15) ____________short of the glorious images he had made of them. The gift of sight brought him merely disillusionment.

Fill in the blank (12).