Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

The most powerful and the most perfect ______ of thought and feeling through the medium of oral language must be traced to the mastery of words. ______is better suited to lead speakers and readers ______ English into an easy control of this language than the command of the phrase that perfectly expresses the thought. Every speaker's aim is to be heard and _______. A clear, crisp ______ holds an audience as by the spell of some irresistible power.

Q:

A clear crisp _______ holds an audience as

• 1
  articulate
• 2
  articulates
• 3
  articulations
• 4
  articulation