decent
descent
descant
descendant
Answer is Right!
Answer is Wrong!
The correct answer is B. descent.
- A. Decent means “of a satisfactory standard” or “agreeable”. It does not make sense in the context of the sentence.
- C. Descant means “a musical passage sung or played above the main melody”. It does not make sense in the context of the sentence.
- D. Descendant means “a person who is descended from another person”. It does not make sense in the context of the sentence.
The sentence is about a group of people who are climbing a mountain. The word “ascent” means “the act of climbing up a mountain”. The word “descent” means “the act of climbing down a mountain”. The sentence is saying that, of all the people who started climbing the mountain, only two of them are left. This means that the other people have descended the mountain.