Select the option that is closest in meaning to the following word. Subscribe

A synonym question asks for the option that shares the core dictionary meaning of the given word — not just any everyday association, but the sense a standard dictionary lists as primary or well-established for that word.

'Subscribe' — beyond its narrow everyday use for magazines or services — has a well-established dictionary sense: 'to subscribe to' an opinion, theory, or belief means to give one's consent or support to it, i.e., to hold or share that view. This is the sense tested here, so the option expressing 'share an opinion, view' is the match.

Cross-check / Contrast:

• 'combine into a whole' — the meaning of 'combine'/'unite', not of holding an opinion.

• 'join' — the meaning of 'enrol'/'enlist' as a member, a narrower everyday use, not the dictionary sense of agreeing with a view.

• 'appoint' — the meaning of 'nominate'/'designate' someone to a role, unrelated to expressing agreement.

Hence, 'share an opinion, view' is the closest synonym of 'subscribe' among the given options.