Critical Reading > Sentence Completions

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Confident that her own political platform would ------- at election time, the mayor considered her opponent's sudden popularity less a threat than -------.

(A) falter . . a boon

(B) strengthen . . a calamity

(C) prevail . . a distraction

(D) alter . . an error

(E) waver . . a diversion?

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