I abstained too, since I hadn't the foggiest notion of why any one should be preferred over the rest. (Though if I had been forced to, I would have guessed A.) I did eliminate several based on the phraseology, starting with

C: don't use the word "climes" in a definition - climates, maybe

or E: devolve is a giveaway (did you mean delve?), likewise tatum

or M: ...now if it had read "machen Sie" instead...

or N: no way mackenzie comes from the Choctaw

but that still didn't leave any rational way to choose among the rest.