Correct Answer: A
Explanation:
To mystify is to bewilder someone intentionally, to block that person’s understanding. The relationship between capitalized words is clear. To Nip something, as used here, is to destroy its progress or fulfillment (as in the phrase “nipped in the bud”: when the FBI nips a conspiracy in the bud, they prevent the plot from achieving completion). Just as to mystify someone is to block his or her understanding, to nip something is to block its full growth or maturation.
| Endurance: | Duration, that which is endured; hardship |