The writer wishes to alter the underlined word in sentence 3 (reproduced below)
Also, the word "pueri," Latin for young
boys, is a MALAPROPSM since it wrongly
connotes the male gender when the term
is believed by one scholar to refer to an
entire impoverished social class that might
have included "puelle" (girls) and even the
aged and the infirm.
What action should she take?
(A) MAKE NO CHANGE
(B) Change to "canard."
(C) Change to "misnomer."
(D) Change to "aberration."
(E) Change to "hyperbole."