Option (a) is correct. ‘Give’ can also mean To yield to physical force’. Option (b) is also correct. ‘Give’ used as a noun means ‘the quality or state of being springy or flexible’. Option (c) is incorrect. ‘Give ground’, which means ‘to give some concession’ would have been correct here. The use of the article ‘the’ is incorrect. Option (d) is correct as ‘give away’ means ‘to disclose or betray’.