Politician: My opponents argue that the future of our city depends on

Politician: My opponents argue that the future of our city depends on compromise—that unless the city’s leaders put aside their differences and work together toward common goals, the city will suffer. However, the founders of this city based the city’s charter on definite principles, and anyone who compromises those principles betrays the city founders’ goals. What any opponents are advocating, therefore, is nothing less than betraying the goals of the city’s founders.

Critic: I’m afraid your argument is flawed. Unless you’re assuming that the differences among the city’s leaders are differences of principle, your argument depends on a misleading use of the term______.

Which one of the following provides the most logical completion of the critic’s statement?

(A) betray

(B) common

(C) compromise

(D) principles

(E) opponents

Taking a clue from answer choices and highlighting those keywords(blue) and supposedly keywords(purple), look for turn of events or direction of passage.
B and E are bland as it can be, not the point of discussion/conflict.
A can't be that term since it is Politician's conclusion.
D is again like A is used by politician to justify his/her point of view.

BTW the hint lies in first sentence itself, more so highlighted when hyphen is used to give the definition/understanding of the word "compromise" as per Politician.

Answer C.

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