The fact that "the party chairman was lauded for the
sophistication by which he conveyed its message" proves that he was not an
unschooled speaker. He must have been eloquent or grandiloquent. But the sentence fragment "increasingly criticized for the
bombast" proves that he was
grandiloquent and is the right choice for the blank. The thought contrastor "but" in "
but increasingly criticized for the bombast" implies that we must expect the opposite of adoration in the second part of the sentence. That is possible only by completing the second blank as "in the end, (ii)
dissuaded all but his most loyal followers from supporting him". The word is
dissuaded. Other than his loyal followers, nobody supported him.
The words from the choice list are
grandiloquent and
dissuaded.
The choices are
C and
D.
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