Big Book T27_S5_Q5

Please help me on this question. I need logical explanation and the strategy applied on this question.

The modern age is a permissive one in which things can be said explicitly, but the old tradition of ------- dies hard.

(A) garrulousness
(B) exaggeration
(C) excoriation
(D) bombast
(E) euphemism

At the “but” is there a support or contrast?