Are you pointing out the blank is wrong,positioned?

I am not to able to check now unfortunately.

Let me know sir

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i have verified the question in the kaplan book. the question in the book is as follows;
Q. The controversy surrounding the election dragged on for
months, and the lack of a definite victor ________ governance
and left people anxious about the future of their leadership.
A facilitated
B augmented
C forestalled
D lowed
E abetted

So, the question posted here has a wrong blank position.

yes sir. My bad I do not how it happened. I fixed it. many thanks and sorry again

For the rest of the sentence is correct as reported. However, in my opinion, after LEFT should be placed a comma and NOT and ......

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The sentence should look like this

The controversy surrounding the election dragged on for months, and the lack of a definite victor (i) ________ governance and left people anxious about the future of their leadership.

The controversy surrounding the election dragged on for months, lacking of a definite victor (i) ________ governance , left people anxious about the future of their leadership.


The controversy surrounding the election dragged on for months, lacking of a definite victor (i) ________ governance , left people anxious about the future of their leadership.

lacking of a definite victor (i) ________ governance Incidental phrase

No sir, the comma position is correct. it is an oxford comma so it should come before "and". it should not be lacking of definite victor. grammatically incorrect. it should be lack of a definite victor.

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