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Re: A skilled though (i)__________speaker, the party chairman was lauded f [#permalink]
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yeah but don't you think that skill is not opposition of grandiloquent
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Hey shubhanggigrover

Kudos to you for the fantastic explanation. I made a mistake comprehending the context. Added yours as the most helpful reply.

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ALL BUT HIS FOLLOWERS reveal that EVERYBODY was disinclined, discourteous, rather dissuaded by the "bombastic" (grandiloquent= grand+ eloquent) nature of his speech except his LOYAL followers. This indicates the adulating and obsequious nature of his followers.
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The fact that "the party chairman was lauded for the sophistication by which he conveyed its message" proves that he was not an unschooled speaker. He must have been eloquent or grandiloquent. But the sentence fragment "increasingly criticized for the bombast" proves that he was grandiloquent and is the right choice for the blank. The thought contrastor "but" in "but increasingly criticized for the bombast" implies that we must expect the opposite of adoration in the second part of the sentence. That is possible only by completing the second blank as "in the end, (ii)dissuaded all but his most loyal followers from supporting him". The word is dissuaded. Other than his loyal followers, nobody supported him.

The words from the choice list are grandiloquent and dissuaded.

The choices are C and D.
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