Answer: Option A
Answer: (a)Meaning: Ballooned - Increase rapidly, Blossomed - to become healthier, Mitigate - to make something less serious, Bundled - to tie a number of things together, Segregated - to separate things from the rest “Being the highest of all time” in the end of the sentence highlights that the sentence shows an increase. “Blossomed and bundled” make no sense for this sentence, as funds can’t be Blossomed or bundled. From the remaining words, “Mitigate and Segregate” have similar meaning i.e. to reduce, separate respectively. “Ballooned” which refers to “an increase” suits to the message of the sentence.