Craft and StructureVery hardWord for a soothing, yielding manner
Craft and Structure practice question
The negotiator's ____ manner, all patience and small concessions, lulled the other side into accepting terms it had rejected a week earlier.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
- A. conciliatoryCorrect
- B. belligerent
- C. haphazard
- D. ostentatious
Answer: A. conciliatory
Patience and concessions: conciliatory.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. belligerent
- The opposite.
- C. haphazard
- Nothing haphazard about a method that works.
- D. ostentatious
- Showiness is not described.
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