Read the sentence below and answer the question that follows. Many conflicts occurring in the Middle East today can be directly linked to how the land was partitioned after World War I.

The word underlined in the sentence above can best be defined as .
A.
the act of supporting the spread of Islamic values and belief into all aspects of a society
B.
a formal decision that is made by a group of people and carried out with authority
C.
a feeling of dislike or anger cause by the sense of having been poorly treated
D.
a division or separation of something into portions