Multiple choice

Directions: Find the statement where the given word hasn’t been used correctly.

FLURRY

  1. The ministers got swept up in a flurry of debates.

  2. Slaughtering of goats creates a flurry in Tiruchi.

  3. The members of the Royal party were so flurried, that they did not hear the splash.

  4. He had to close the window against the flurry of snow.

  5. After an initial flurry the buyers settled down.
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Option (2): From this option it can be inferred that the act caused a violent agitation. Although flurry also implies a kind of agitation, this kind of violent agitation is termed as 'a flare up'. The correct expression is 'lead to a flare up'. Hence, (2) is answer. 

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