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Fill in the blank in the following sentence with the correctly spelled word:

The _________ of the abandoned child was perceptible in her eyes.

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 2

The correct spelling is 'despondency', meaning dejection or low spirits, formed from 'despondent' + '-cy'. 'Despondancy', 'dispodency', and 'despondentment' are all misspellings or non-words.

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