Choose the correct option that can replace the given phrase:-
To obtain from different sources.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → culled
Culled (from "cull", through French from the Latin "colligere", to gather) means selected or gathered from a number of sources. Facts or ideas obtained from different sources are said to be culled from them.
Example: The quotations were culled from several old newspapers.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 2: skulled — Incorrect. Skulled does not mean obtaining anything; it is easily confused with sculled, which means rowed a light boat with a pair of oars.
Option 3: hulled — Incorrect. Hulled means with the outer husk or shell removed from grain or seeds.
Example: The rice is hulled before it is polished.
Option 4: mulled — Incorrect. Mulled means thought about carefully for a long time (also, of wine, heated with spices).
Example: She mulled over the job offer for a week.