Each of the questions below contains one or more blank spaces, each blank…

Concept

In a double-blank sentence-completion question, first work out the logical relationship the sentence sets up between its two clauses using its signal words (here, 'unjustly' and the judge's 'order'), and only then test which word-pair preserves that relationship. Since options must be chosen as a matched pair, when several choices look equally plausible for one blank, resolve the other blank first and let it decide the pair.

Application

1. The phrase 'unjustly ... the reputation' tells us the first blank needs a word meaning that the reputation was harmed without just cause — injured, sullied, damaged, and tarnished are all close synonyms here, so the first blank alone cannot separate the four options.

2. The second clause tells us the statements were 'libellous' and that the judge 'ordered' an action against them in print — the second blank therefore needs a word meaning to withdraw or take back a published statement.

3. Checking the second-blank words: retract means exactly this — to withdraw a statement formally. Publicize and disseminate both mean to spread or circulate something further, and cover up means to conceal it — none of these three describes withdrawing a published statement, so all three contradict a judge's corrective order.

4. Since retract is the only second-blank word consistent with the sentence, and options are picked in matched pairs, the pair combining it with a valid first-blank word is the answer.

Cross-check

Reading the completed sentence back confirms the fit: 'the news report had unjustly injured the reputation of the Physician' and 'ordered the newspaper to retract its libellous statements' — both blanks now describe a single coherent legal narrative: unjust harm, followed by a formal withdrawal.

Injured – retract is therefore the pair that completes the sentence.