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Though the industry leader faces prosecution while the small
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Updated on: 20 Oct 2025, 04:33
Updated on: 20 Oct 2025, 04:33
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Though the industry leader faces prosecution while the smaller company is legally shielded from consequences due to a crafty system of hiring outside firms to do its dirty work, the smaller firm is clearly (i) _________ with the larger one, (ii) _________ the larger firm’s plans to dominate the industry through illegal labor practices and offshore dumping.
| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
| (A) at loggerheads | (D) colluding |
| (B) in cahoots | (E) stymying |
| (C) preoccupied | (F) abetting |
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Re: Though the industry leader faces prosecution while the small
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06 Nov 2017, 19:11
06 Nov 2017, 19:11
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The Though at the beginning of the sentence tells you that the second part of the sentence will oppose the idea of the big firm (the “industry leader”) being punished while the small firm gets away with something.
Indeed, the small firm is working with the larger one to do wrong — it is in cahoots. In the second blank, you need a word that means “complicit in” or “helping (in a bad way).” Only abetting works. Watch out for the trap answer colluding. This word does mean to cooperate in order to commit a wrong, but doesn’t fit for grammatical reasons — you can’t collude plans. Rather, you collude with X to do Y (collude with a competitor to raise prices).
In cahoots, abetting.
The Though at the beginning of the sentence tells you that the second part of the sentence will oppose the idea of the big firm (the “industry leader”) being punished while the small firm gets away with something.
Indeed, the small firm is working with the larger one to do wrong — it is in cahoots. In the second blank, you need a word that means “complicit in” or “helping (in a bad way).” Only abetting works. Watch out for the trap answer colluding. This word does mean to cooperate in order to commit a wrong, but doesn’t fit for grammatical reasons — you can’t collude plans. Rather, you collude with X to do Y (collude with a competitor to raise prices).
In cahoots, abetting.
Re: Though the industry leader faces prosecution while the small
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01 Dec 2025, 06:09
01 Dec 2025, 06:09
Abet means to encourage or assist (someone) to do something wrong. Even this does not grammatically flow in the context of plans.
