Directions: Choose appropriate meaning of the words in bold as per their contextual use.

The unscrupulous informer supplanted the king's honest advisors.

Supplant means to supersede or replace, often through displacement or usurping someone's position. The informer took the place of the honest advisors, not necessarily killing them. Murdered (A) is too specific, hoodwinked (C) means deceived, and cheated (D) is less precise than the complete displacement implied by supplanted.