Choose the most appropriate homonym from the given alternatives:
With time, the prices of essential commodities ________ high, beyond expectation.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → soar
Complete sentence: With time, the prices of essential commodities soar high, beyond expectation. Prices of essential goods that go up "high, beyond expectation" soar.
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) sour | having a sharp, acid taste like a lemon, or as a verb, to become unpleasant, as a friendship sours (it does not describe prices going up) | The milk turned sour in the heat. |
| (2) soar (answer) | to fly or rise high in the air, and of prices or amounts, to rise very quickly to a high level | Vegetable prices soar every year during the monsoon. |
| (3) sure | certain (an adjective, not a verb, and it makes no sense after "prices") | Are you sure the shop is open today? |
| (4) sore | painful, usually of a part of the body (it sounds the same as soar but is an adjective with a different meaning) | My legs were sore after the long walk. |