I am not sure if the bus that has been booked will be able to ______ all the students. A. sit B. deteriorate C. fill D. accommodate

GATE 2019 · General Aptitude · Most Appropriate Word · medium

Answer: D. accommodate

1. Identify semantic requirement: The sentence is about capacity: will the bus have enough room for all students? The required verb must mean 'hold/house/have capacity for'. This narrows to 'accommodate' immediately, as it is the standard English verb for this meaning.
2. Eliminate incorrect options: A. sit — intransitive; buses do not 'sit' students. B. deteriorate — means to worsen; completely irrelevant. C. fill — means to make full; 'fill all students' is unidiomatic and reverses subject-object roles. D. accommodate — 'the bus will be able to accommodate all the students' is perfectly natural.