Select the best replacement of underlined word: Visitors to impoverished, countries are often shocked at the number of mendicants in the streets.

Select the best replacement of underlined word: Visitors to impoverished, countries are often shocked at the number of mendicants in the streets.

  • (A) Beggars
  • (B) Criminals
  • (C) Vendors
  • (D) Drunkards
Beggars stand in for "mendicants", a direct, precise synonym for people in the streets asking for money. Mendicant means someone who asks for money or food. On the streets of poor countries, that's exactly who they mean. Its pretty clear what it describes. People just ask, and thats how they survive.
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