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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