Despite having engineered and overseen the return of several stray dioceses that had broken away under his predecessor's (i)_________, the bishop had a modest and open quality that (ii)_________ the (iii)_________ of his position.
The bishop "
having engineered and overseen the return of several stray diocese" is contrasted with his predecessor, who, therefore, must lack the dynamism of the current bishop, causing these stray diocese to break away. The word from the choice list is
laxity.
The sentence fragment:
the bishop had a modest and open quality that (ii)_________ the (iii)_________ of his position.
is contrasted with his
having engineered and overseen the return of several stray dioceses that had broken away under his predecessor's (i)
laxityClearly the bishop's position should be an eminent one given his achievements. The
audacity of his position does not make sense in this context. Yet the bishop had a modest and open quality which
belied the
eminence of his position.
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