Fill in the blank in the given sentence with the most appropriate word. Kartik…

Concept: In a meaning-based sentence-completion question, the missing word must match both the sentence's intended meaning and its grammatical form (tense/part of speech). Words that merely look similar to the right word must be checked against their own dictionary meaning, not just their spelling.

Application: The sentence describes Kartik forming a scheme to get unlimited popcorn — "Kartik ___________ a plan to get an unlimited supply of popcorn in the theatre." The blank verb must therefore mean "to plan or work out by careful thought" and must be in the simple past tense to match the sentence's narrative tense. "devised" is the past tense of "devise" (to invent or work out a plan/method by thought), which supplies exactly this meaning and tense, giving the standard English collocation "devised a plan".

• "divided" is the past tense of "divide", meaning to separate something into parts or shares — "divided a plan" does not convey creating or working out a plan.

• "divine" is a base/present form; used as a verb it means to guess or perceive something by intuition (its past tense would be "divined"), so it fits neither the required meaning nor the past tense the sentence needs.

• "diviced" is not a recognised English word — no verb "divice" appears in standard dictionaries.

Cross-check: Reading the completed sentence — "Kartik devised a plan to get an unlimited supply of popcorn in the theatre" — confirms the meaning is coherent and the tense is consistent, while substituting any of the other three words breaks either the meaning or the grammar. Hence "devised" is the word that correctly completes the sentence.