The proponents of recombinant DNA research have decided to - - - federal regulation of their work; they hope that by making this compromise they can forestall proposed state and local controls that might be even stiffer.
(A) protest
(B) institute
(C.) deny
(D) encourage
(E) disregard
With the word ‘compromise’ I put the word compromise/sacrifice in the blank. Please provide me the explanation.
The second sentence states that they are trying to prevent something which is more strict, so we should choose a word that suggests that goes with the idea of following the federal regulation of their work or something like that. So I think the answer should be D.
How could encouraging sth(federal regulation) be a compromise?
So basically here, encouraging federal regulation = discouraging local control… so that could be a compromise.
Compromising here is basically not going against the federal regulations and agreeing with it so that they can prevent the local controls that might be even more stiffer
Also here there is and between proposed state and local control. And the word forestall is for both of them