Correct Answer: Aggravate

Solution : The correct choice is the third option .

Alleviate means to make something easier to endure. Aggravate means to make something worse or more serious, making it an antonym for the word alleviate .

The meanings of the other options are as follows:

• Soothe means to gently calm.
• Ameliorate means to make something better or more tolerable.
• Destroy means to damage something in a violent way.