Choose the word that best fills the blank.
Cutting down the forests has ______ the problem of floods.

aggravatedCorrect answerYour answeraggregatedCorrect answerYour answeraggrievedCorrect answerYour answeragitatedCorrect answerYour answer

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Correct answer: A

To aggravate a problem is to make it worse, which losing forests does to floods.

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Aggregated means collected together, and aggrieved means feeling wronged.

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Choose the word that best fills the blank.Cutting down the forests has ______ the problem of floods.