OE


You have two clues about the popularity of long-distance automobile travel: /N/umerous exorbitant tolls indicate that such travel is now more expensive due to excessively high costs, and the upswing on the other side of the transition while suggests that the popularity of traveling by car is swinging in the other direction. Hence, you need a word like decreasedin the blank. Both intensified and surged are nearly the opposite of what you're looking for, so eliminate (C) and (F). Neither equivocated, which means spoke in an ambiguous manner, nor importuned, which means begged, is supported by the sentence, so eliminate (B) and (D). Both waned and abated mean decreased, so (A) and (E) give you appropriate, equivalent sentences.

Fixed the blank. Thank yu sir