Directions: Choose the option that is suitable for all the blanks.

A. The teacher, on the last day, will _______ commitment from his pupils to work harder. B. The thugs will _______ money at the first possible opportunity. C. Those who _______ the gist will not be tormented by the whole. D. Never _______ undue concessions from anybody.

'Exhort' is to encourage and 'exhume' is to dig out something buried (even symbolically). The latter can be vaguely applied in the case of usage C, but the former finds no application. Nor does 'retort' (quick and sharp - often bitter reply) find an application. 'Extract' and 'extort' have similar meanings except that the latter involves an element of coercion that the former does not have. 'Extort' will find logical application only in D, whereas 'extract' can be applied to all of these.