Multiple choice

Directions: Select the most appropriate eponym or toponym as per the description/ definition given in the question.

When you refuse to have anything to do with anyone

  1. Bowdlerize

  2. Boycott

  3. Proscribe

  4. Embargo
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Charles Boycott was a retired English army captain who refused to lower rents to his farmer tenants after a few bad harvests and was accused of exploiting the poor. The locals harassed him, stealing his crops and refusing to sell his products in their stores, until he was hounded out of the country.

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