Official Answer:-

The key phrases in this sentence are “became partially submerged in the pond” and “a significant quantity of dirty water.” Possible effects of falling into a body of water include getting wet and taking in water through your mouth or nose. Using this information, we can predict that Miguel swallowed a significant quantity of dirty water. The answers that best match this prediction are (B) imbibe and (E) ingest, which both mean “consume by drinking or eating.”

The first answer choice, (A) absorb, not only fails to match our prediction, but it also does not make sense that Miguel would absorb water. His clothes probably did, but Miguel is a person. We don’t say that people who fall in a pond “absorb” water, so this choice is incorrect. Three other answer choices that we can eliminate are (C) regurgitate, which means “surge back” or “repeat,”(D) dispatch, which means “send away,” and (F) spew, which means “eject” or “gush forth.” None of them means “swallowing” or taking in water. The correct answers are (B) imbibe and (E) ingest.