Choose the most appropriate word to fill in the blank:
Guests at the hill-station hotel must ______ their rooms by 11 a.m. on the day they leave, so that the staff can clean them for the next group.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → vacate
Complete sentence: Guests at the hill-station hotel must vacate their rooms by 11 a.m. on the day they leave, so that the staff can clean them for the next group.
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) occupy | to live in or use a place | A family from Kerala now occupies the flat above ours. |
| (2) reserve | to book something so that it is kept for one’s use later | Papa reserved two seats on the Rajdhani for our Diwali trip. |
| (3) decorate | to make a place look nicer by adding pretty things to it | We decorated the classroom with paper lanterns for Teachers’ Day. |
| (4) vacate (answer) | to leave a place so that it is empty for someone else (fits leaving hotel rooms by 11 a.m.) | We had to vacate the rented flat in Pune when the owner’s son came back from Dubai. |