Question 196

Select the option that can be used to improve the part of the sentence written in bold:
The government policies would wreak havoc on the Chinese economy.

Solution

‘Wreck’ means to ‘destroy or severely damage. ‘Wreak’ means to inflict a large amount of damage. Since ‘wreck' does not have the sense of ‘cause’ or ‘inflict’ as 'wreak' has, the phrase ‘wrecking havoc’ is illogical.
Hence, option B is the correct choice.

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