Question
In the question given below, a word has been given and
there are three ways in which the word has been used, in similar or different forms. You need to see which of the following sentence(s) has/have incorrectly used the given word and mark your answer accordingly. Confabulation I. It's a particularly compelling hypothesis for Britain, a country still reeling from a public referendum whose outcome was determined by viral confabulations of the most pernicious kind. II. In Simon Stephens's two-character play Heisenberg, now running at Manhattan Theatre Club, Georgie Burns, a middle-aged woman given to confession and confabulation , enters an elderly butcher's shop and pummels him with questions. III. I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.Solution
(e) Confabulation (noun) - an informal conversation; chat or gossip; (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered. It has been used correctly in all the given sentences. Option E is the correct answer.
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