Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. Carcass

Correct — B. A carcass is a dead body — in its usual use, the dead body of an animal, especially one dressed for meat.

Corpse carries that same core sense, a dead body, most often a human one. Nothing else on the list denotes a body at all → option (b).

The stem asks for the most appropriate synonym, not an exact match of register, so the animal-versus-human difference does not disqualify it.

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Scrap — Scrap is a small leftover piece or waste material. A carcass is a whole body rather than a fragment, and scrap carries no sense of death.
• (c)
  Prison — Prison is a place of confinement and shares no part of carcass's meaning. Sounding grim is not a semantic link.
• (d)
  Gale — Gale is a very strong wind, a weather word. It shares neither the sense nor the root of carcass, and no reading of the headword reaches it.

Carcass and corpse are near-synonyms separated by register, not by core meaning. Carcass belongs to animals and the meat trade, corpse to human death and to medical or police writing.

The instruction reads 'most appropriate', so you are choosing the option nearest in sense and then checking that nothing else on the list is nearer.

That check is what makes this item quick once you see it: the other three options name a fragment, a building and a wind, and none of them names a dead thing.

Key facts

• Carcass is the dead body of an animal, especially one prepared as meat.
• Corpse is a dead body, most often a human one, and shares carcass's core sense of 'dead body'.
• Scrap means a small leftover piece or waste material, not a body.
• Gale means a very strong wind.

Common traps

• Rejecting Corpse because carcass is an animal word, when the two share the sense being tested.
• Choosing Scrap on the idea of remains, when scrap names a fragment rather than a body.
• Hunting for a word that also matches the register instead of the meaning.

No directly related past PYQ was found.