Multiple choice

Directions: Select the option that fills in the blanks most suitably (in the same order).

This ________ balance of payment must be seen along with an equally ________ problem of deficits in the government's own budget.

  1. expanding, puny

  2. deteriorating, indisposed

  3. harrowing, understood

  4. adverse, serious

  5. pronounced, exuberant
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

‘Equally ________ problem’ means both the fillers need to represent words of intensity and seriousness. Option (4) contains very simple, but most appropriate words to fill the blanks. 

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