Caustic is to sting as is to

a. wry is to tickle
b. trite is to stun
c. pompous is to grab
d. curt is to embrace
e. judicious is to grip

Aman lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. in the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he goes back to his floor directly. otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment.