abondon/surrender

[hooshdar3]

"All attempts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict have now been-------.
1)accomplished 2)abondoned 3)decayed 4)surrendered

Which choice is correct?

[SlickVic9000]

I'm going with 2 on this one. It makes the most sense here.

[bhaisahab]

"All attempts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict have now been-------.
1)accomplished 2)abondoned 3)decayed 4)surrender

Which choice is correct?

#2 "abandoned" would seem the most likely.

[hooshdar3]

Why is that?

[5jj]

As SlickVic said, "It makes the most sense here."

[hooshdar3]

As SlickVic said, "It makes the most sense here."

Could you be clearer please?

It just makes no sense to me that "it makes the most sense here"

What does abondon mean that surrender doesn't?

look here:
surrender - definition of surrender by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

surrender in sense 2 has as sunonyms "give up", "abondon", ....

[5jj]

Your test sentence requires a past participle.

Note the correct spelling of synonym and abandon.

[hooshdar3]

Your test sentence requires a past participle.

Note the correct spelling of synonym and abandon.

oh, yeah!

[SoothingDave]

Could you be clearer please?

It just makes no sense to me that "it makes the most sense here"

What does abondon mean that surrender doesn't?

look here:
surrender - definition of surrender by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

surrender in sense 2 has as sunonyms "give up", "abondon", ....

When you surrender you are giving up to some other party, who wins. In this case, there is no winner.

[hooshdar3]

Your test sentence requires a past participle.

Note the correct spelling of synonym and abandon.

Sorry, I corrected it.#4 is 'surrendered'