Scholars' sense of the uniqueness of the central concept of 'state' at the time when political science became an academic field quite naturally led to striving for a correspondingly____mode of study.

Scholars' sense of the uniqueness of the central concept of 'state' at the time when political science became an academic field

quite naturally led to striving for a correspondingly____mode of study.

The sentence states that the scholar's sense of the uniqueness of the central concept of 'state' led to striving for a corresponding mode of study. A mode of study corresponding to the scholar's sense of uniqueness (of the concept of the 'state')

A mode of study corresponding to the scholar's sense of the uniqueness of the concept of the state would only be equally unique.

I would complete the sentence as follows:

Scholars' sense of the uniqueness of the central concept of 'state' at the time when political science became an academic field
quite naturally led to striving for a correspondingly unique mode of study.

The words from the choice list are distinctive and singular.

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