In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.
Lateral thinking method is ______ with creation of new ideas that is a procedure and readiness to look at things in a diverse approach.
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
The correct answer is option 4, i.e. apprehensive.
- Regressive means returning to a former or less developed state.
- Neoconservative means relating to or denoting a return to a modified form of a traditional viewpoint, in particular a political ideology characterized by an emphasis on free-market capitalism and an interventionist foreign policy.
- Aggressive means behaving or done in a determined and forceful way.
- Apprehensive means anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen.
Option 4 expresses a meaning that completes the sense that the sentence is trying to make. It hence becomes the correct fill for the blank.