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Re: Those who later studied the language of the embassy’s missive agreed t
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02 Oct 2021, 05:51
Those who later studied the language of the embassy’s missive agreed that though its wording was clearly designed to (i)__________the leaders of the insurgency and to thereby prevent violence, its (ii)__________tone was responsible for further inflaming their wrath.
The two highlighted words are the only clue required to find the blanks. For the first blank, the overall tone is positive and it the wordings were to prevent violence, thus, placate. For the second blank, the sentence says that the words rather inflamed, therefore the words were not so placating, condescending fits the bill.
Thus, C & F
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