Fill in the blank in the following sentence with an appropriate word:
The vegetable soup will ------- your appetite for more food.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → whet
Complete sentence: The vegetable soup will whet your appetite for more food. A soup served before a meal makes one hungry for more food.
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) wet | covered with water, or, as a verb, to make something damp (whet and wet sound alike) | The rain wet the clothes on the line. |
| (2) whet (answer) | to sharpen (a knife or blade), and with "appetite" or "interest", to make it keener | The smell from the kitchen whetted my appetite. |
| (3) vet | to check someone or something carefully before approving it, or, as a noun, an animal doctor (it does not go with appetite) | The company vets every applicant before hiring. |
| (4) vert | a rare word for the colour green in heraldry, the designs on coats of arms (it is not a verb) | The shield showed a gold lion on a field of vert. |