To attain a goal means to

• A. To reach or arrive at
• B. To underestimate
• C. To misinterpret
• D. To delay

Answer: (A)

Attaining a goal means achieving or reaching the objective you aimed for. It conveys finishing what you set out to do and obtaining the desired outcome, often through effort and persistence. For example, someone might attain their goal of running a marathon or a team attaining its sales target.

This idea contrasts with the other actions: underestimating is judging something as smaller than it is, misinterpreting is understanding something wrongly, and delaying is postponing or slowing down. None of those describe successfully reaching or achieving a planned objective the way attaining does.