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Condominium owners have become so accustomed to the tax advantages derived from their rental properties that a fiscal policy designed to withdraw these benefits would invite (i)__________. Indeed, implementation of such a policy would be akin to trying to (ii)__________a bone from the jaws of a starving dog.

Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A. forbearance D. prize
B. indignation E. prohibit
C. apathy F. conceal



Please correct Choice D. It should be prise and not prize.
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D is perfectly correct sir.

It means, in the parallelism showed by the question,

implementation of such a policy would be akin to trying to (ii)__________a bone from the jaws of a starving dog.


Prize ( something valuable, such as an amount of money) in the sentence above means exchange or trading something when the other part (in this case the dog with the bone in mouth) DOES NOT want to cede

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Thank you carcass for your efforts


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