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Social tensions among adult factions can be by politics, but
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Social tensions among adult factions can be (i) _______ by politics, but adolescents and children have no such (ii) _______ for resolving their conflict with the exclusive world of adults.
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| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
|---|---|
| intensified | attitude |
| frustrated | mechanism |
| adjusted | justification |
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Re: Social tensions among adult factions can be by politics, but
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Social tensions among adult factions can be (i) _______ by politics, but adolescents and children have no such (ii) _______ for resolving their conflict with the exclusive world of adults.
Kudos for the right answer and explanation
| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
|---|---|
| intensified | attitude |
| frustrated | mechanism |
| adjusted | justification |
Kudos for the right answer and explanation
"For resolving their conflict", we need a similar word for the first blank; intensified is an opposite, frustrated mean thwart, adjusted means balanced or fixed. So, adjusted is the correct answer.
Now, notice the sentence is saying, children, have "no such" _____ for resolving the conflict. So, this tells me that they don't have the same tools or mechanisms.
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Social tensions among adult factions can be (i) _______ by politics, but adolescents and children have no such (ii) _______ for resolving their conflict with the exclusive world of adults.
The first part of the sentence:
Social tensions among adult factions can be (i) _______ by politics
talks about social tensions among adult factions
and the second part of the sentence:
adolescents and children have no such (ii) _______ for resolving their conflict with the exclusive world of adults.
talks about adolescents and children not having something that will enable them to resolve their conflict with adults.
The second part of the sentence begins with but, which contrasts the ideas in the two parts of the sentence.
Since the second part of the sentence talks about the inability to resolve conflicts, the first part should talk about the ability to do so.
Therefore, the word for the first blank is adjusted.
Both sentences are parallel in structure, they talk about the problem and the method of resolution.
The first part talks about social tensions and its resolution by politics.
So the word for the second blank should be mechanism, whose counterpart in the first sentence is politics.
The first part of the sentence:
Social tensions among adult factions can be (i) _______ by politics
talks about social tensions among adult factions
and the second part of the sentence:
adolescents and children have no such (ii) _______ for resolving their conflict with the exclusive world of adults.
talks about adolescents and children not having something that will enable them to resolve their conflict with adults.
The second part of the sentence begins with but, which contrasts the ideas in the two parts of the sentence.
Since the second part of the sentence talks about the inability to resolve conflicts, the first part should talk about the ability to do so.
Therefore, the word for the first blank is adjusted.
Both sentences are parallel in structure, they talk about the problem and the method of resolution.
The first part talks about social tensions and its resolution by politics.
So the word for the second blank should be mechanism, whose counterpart in the first sentence is politics.
