Choose the correct option to fill in the blank in the given sentence:
Every product is ______tested before being sold in the retail market.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → exhaustively
Complete sentence: Every product is exhaustively tested before being sold in the retail market. A product must be tested in this careful, complete way before it is sold in the market.
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) exhaustively (answer) | thoroughly and completely, covering every detail | The new vaccine was exhaustively tested before it was approved. |
| (2) desultorily | in a half-hearted way, without plan or purpose (it is the opposite of the careful testing a product needs) | He turned the pages desultorily, reading nothing in full. |
| (3) indeterminately | in a vague way, not fixed or settled (it does not describe a testing process) | The boundary between the two villages was drawn indeterminately, so both claimed the same field. |
| (4) haphazardly | in a careless, disorganised way, without any order (it goes against proper testing) | The books were stacked haphazardly on the shelf. |
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