Question 1
Choose the word or set of words that best completes the following sentence.
The informant a number of political secrets to the media.
- divulged
- communicated
- mentioned
- whispered
- murmured
Explanation: The key phrases for this sentence is “political secrets.” The informant is not merely communicating to his listener. Even worse than that, he is giving out things that should be secret. Such an act is one of “divulging.” The word comes from the Latin root for “vulgar,” a word that originally meant the common people. When someone divulges something, he or she makes it known “to the masses” or “commonly” (as opposed to keeping it secret as was the case before the divulging).