Multiple choice

Which cluster has all the words that belong to the headword ‘drop’?

  1. Mention, leave, unload, fall, cut

  2. Hire, pick, water, eliminate, miss out

  3. Refer, hint, suggest, jilt, claim

  4. Slump, increment, fall, quit, kick

  5. Introduce, say, adopt, depart, leave
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Explanation

All of these words are associated with drop. Drop can mean ‘mention’. To drop an idea is to say or mention it. To drop someone at the airport is to leave him there. As a noun drop means ‘fall’, ‘cut’, ‘decrement’, ‘reduction’ and similar ideas.

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