Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
An __________ person always plans in an imaginative manner.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → ingenious
Complete sentence: An ingenious person always plans in an imaginative manner. A person who plans in an imaginative manner is inventive in thought, so ingenious fits the blank.
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) infuriated | extremely angry (anger has no link with imaginative planning) | The customer was infuriated by the long delay. |
| (2) ingenious (answer) | clever, original and inventive | The engineer found an ingenious way to save water in the factory. |
| (3) affected | influenced or changed by something, or, for a person's manner, artificial and put on to impress (neither meaning describes a person who plans imaginatively) | The floods affected thousands of villages. |
| (4) effected | brought about or caused to happen, the past form of the verb "effect" (it does not describe a person, and affect and effect sound alike: to affect is to influence, to effect is to bring about) | The new manager effected several changes in the office. |
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