Well, since jaunt and excursion mean relatively the same things, they are near synonyms, we are looking here for a word that has a relatively similar meaning to that of 'resignation'. Since you didn't give us any examples, I will just list you some of its synonyms: departure, retirement, termination, abdication, leaving, notice, abandonment, withdrawal, etc.
The answer is C, because a participle is a word form from a verb, for example: going, been, being, gone etc. and describing like farming man, things like that, also is going to.<span />
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