A man who has committed such an _______ crime must get the most severe…

CONCEPT: A sentence-completion vocabulary question requires the word that matches not just the grammar of the sentence but the degree of intensity implied by the rest of the sentence.

APPLICATION: Here, the consequence “the most severe punishment” signals that the crime itself must be of the highest degree of wrongdoing. “Abominable” (extremely wicked, detestable, causing moral revulsion) is the only option that matches that intensity, giving: “A man who has committed such an abominable crime must get the most severe punishment.”

• injurious: causes harm or damage, but does not necessarily mean immoral or heinous

• uncharitable: unkind or ungenerous in attitude, not about the severity of a crime

• unworthy: lacking merit or value, unrelated to the wickedness of an act

Hence, abominable is the word that correctly completes the sentence.