Question

Find the synonym of the underlined word.
I didn't comprehend the nature of the project until I had read your brief report.

a)Follow
b)Contend
c)Embrace
d)Placate
e)Understand

Answer 1

Hint: If you do not know the exact meaning of the underlined word, you can translate the sentence in your mother tongue with the blank intact, and you will get a rough idea.

Complete step-by-step answer:

 Comprehend is explained as something which is mentally grasped.
The first option is incorrect because follow means something that comes immediately after some other pre-existing thing.
Contend means to assert or to claim something, it does not involve anything related to mental grasping that is the reason, option b is also incorrect.
The meaning of embrace is to hold something or someone, colloquially it means to hug. Again, this has no correlation to the underlined term hence it is the wrong alternative.
Option d is not correct because the word means to calm down someone hence it does not stand close to the meaning of comprehend.
The last option Understand is the correct and the most precise synonym of the underlined word: Comprehend. These two worlds can be interchanged in the sentence itself.

Note: Always read all the options very carefully before narrowing down to one option. Sometimes certain words seem to be the correct synonym of the given word but the further options might have a word that is even more closely associated.