After they diluted the dark soda, it looked more like iced tea. using the context, the word diluted means watered down drank filled up pledged

most of the knowledge we have of the conflict comes from roman-jewish scholar titus flavius josephus, who first fought in the revolt against the romans, but was then kept by future emperor vespasian as a slave and interpreter.

if it were me, i would pick c. c is the best answer because it's basically saying go on a non-violent strike for india