Answer: Option D
Answer: (d)Meaning: Speculation - an opinion based on incomplete evidence, Toleration - Allowing an action, idea, object or person which one dislikes or disagrees, Crunch - A severe shortage. The sentence needs a word that matches to something that made the ministry indicate that the things would lead to normal. Flow and Ease are words which already indicate a normalcy. Speculation and Toleration can’t have an adjective like “supply”. “Shortage of something” may be a result due to rains.