WBCS Preliminary Examination 2024 — General Studies · Question 9 of 200

Answer: (D) makes arrangements for funerals.

An 'undertaker' is a person whose business is preparing the dead for burial or cremation and arranging funerals; the modern terms are 'funeral director' and (in American English) 'mortician'. The word looks like it should mean 'one who undertakes projects' (A), which is why it is a popular one-word-substitution trap. A person who hears confessions in a church (C) is a 'confessor', and there is no single common word for option B beyond 'bribe-taker'. Related vocabulary: pallbearer (carries the coffin), sexton (looks after a churchyard), coroner (officer who inquires into unnatural deaths), epitaph (words on a tomb) and obituary (death notice).