What is a more appropriate word to replace "lower" in the sentence below?

Question

"Designers take advantage of gravity to generate speed on their ride as cars lower these slopes."

Question 7 options:

depart

extend

descend

increase

Answer 1

The most appropriate word to replace "lower" in that sentence is "descend."

So the revised sentence would read: "Designers take advantage of gravity to generate speed on their ride as cars descend these slopes."