سوال ۳ کنکور ارشد فیزیک ۱۴۰۴
Reading about the extensive food directives some parents leave for their babysitters, I was wondering if these lists are meant to ease «..........» feeling for leaving the children in someone else's care.
پاسخ صحیح: گزینهٔ D — a guilty
The verb ease takes a negative feeling as its object — you relieve or lessen something unpleasant, not something pleasant. The context ("leaving the children in someone else's care") names exactly the situation parents feel bad about, so the detailed food lists are a way of soothing their guilt. Guilty = feeling responsible for something wrong or for neglecting a duty, which fits ease a guilty feeling (a fixed collocation, like ease/assuage one's guilt).
- an affectionate (loving, warm) — a positive feeling; you would not need to ease it.
- a misguided feeling — describes a mistaken belief or action, not an emotion you soothe with checklists.
- an undisturbed feeling — means calm/untroubled; easing an already untroubled feeling is self-contradictory.
Exam trick: when the verb is ease / relieve / alleviate / assuage, the blank almost always holds a negative noun or adjective (guilt, anxiety, pain, tension). Screening the four options by polarity alone leaves only guilty here.