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Direction: Read the passage carefully and answer the question given below it. Certain words/phrases are given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.

The Employees, State Insurance Act, 1948 is a social security legislation that provides complete medical care and cash benefits in the contingencies of sickness, maternity disablement, death due to employment injury, and unemployment to beneficiaries who come from the organised- sector working-class families in the lower wage bracket of the society. The Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) runs a unique social security scheme which has the features of an insurance organisation as well as of a service provider for health-related needs of the insured persons under the scheme. The ESI Scheme offers comprehensive medical care and cash benefits which cannot be matched by any private insurance company. This is the only scheme where there is no upper limit on medical expenditure of the beneficiaries. The corporation strives to improve the scale of benefits being provided to the beneficiaries both in quantitative terms as well as qualitative. The corporation also provides unemployment allowance under Rajiv Gandhi Sharmik Kalyan Yojana to the workers who go out of employment involuntarily for up to one year. The ESIC is also providing financial assistance in upgrading their skills with a view to getting re- employment for the unemployed workers. For overcoming the shortage of medical manpower and improving the medical services in ESI Hospitals, ESIC has decided to set up medical colleges, nursing colleges, dental colleges and training schools for other para-medical staff in ESIC/ESI Hospitals. Under the dynamic leadership of AK Agarwal, Director General, ESIC has made its significant presence felt at the international forum of the International Social Security Association (ISSA) by winning awards in "ISSA Good Practice Award, ASIA and Pacific Competition-2012" held at Seoul, Republic of Korea.

 

Which of the following is most similar in meaning to the word 'strive' as used in the passage?

A)  impress                        

B)  divest       

C)  extend             

D)  endeavor

E)  disseminate