Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the underlined group of words. The workers received a sum for the services they rendered.

Correct — D. The group of words in play is 'a sum for the services they rendered' — money paid in return for work.

Remuneration is precisely that: payment or reward for services rendered, from Latin remunerari, to reward.

It covers salary, wages, fees and any other reward for work done, which is why option (d) fits a sum received by workers for services.

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Remembrance — Remembrance is the act of remembering, or a memorial kept in someone's honour. It shares the opening syllable with the answer and none of the meaning.
• (b)
  Recruitment — Recruitment is the act of enlisting people into a job or a force. It names the hiring, which happens before any sum is paid for services.
• (c)
  Rejuvenation — Rejuvenation means making young or fresh again, from Latin juvenis, young. Nothing in the word concerns payment.

The four options are near-miss abstract nouns that all open with 're-' and look alike on a fast read. The way through is to strip the prefix and read the root.

Remuneration sits on Latin remunerari, to reward, built on munus, a gift or service.
Remembrance sits on memor, mindful.
Rejuvenation sits on juvenis, young.

Only the first root has anything to do with paying, and the underlined phrase is about pay.

Key facts

• Remuneration means money paid for work or services rendered.
• It comes from Latin remunerari, to reward, built on munus, a gift or service.
• The frequent spelling 'renumeration' has no basis: the root is munus, not number.
• Recruitment names the act of enlisting people, which precedes any payment.

Common traps

• Choosing 'recruitment' because workers and hiring feel related.
• Spelling the answer 'renumeration' when writing it out later.
• Scanning only the first three letters, which every option shares.

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