Choose the correct option to fill in the blank in the given sentence:-
Men who are always _____ about their poverty, never achieve success forget happiness.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → grumbling
To grumble means to complain in a low, bad-tempered way, again and again. The sentence is about men who keep complaining about their poverty instead of working to change it, and says such men never achieve success or happiness. "Always grumbling about" fits this habit of complaining.
Example: He is always grumbling about the food in the hostel.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: rejoicing — Incorrect. Rejoicing means feeling or showing great joy; people do not rejoice about their poverty, and joy would not stop success.
Example: The whole village was rejoicing at the news of the victory.
Option 2: fighting — Incorrect. Fighting poverty would be an effort to overcome it, which leads towards success; also, "fighting about" means quarrelling, which does not fit poverty.
Example: The two brothers keep fighting about the television remote.
Option 4: ignoring — Incorrect. "Ignore" takes a direct object ("ignoring their poverty"), not "about"; and the sentence blames a negative habit, not indifference.
Example: She kept ignoring the warning light in her car.