While the professor often loudly criticized the greed that attended commercial enterprise his private negotiations with the university that employed him betrayed the______________ of his public position for he demanded a large salary increase and perquisites that might rival those of the prerevolutionary French nobility
Avarice
Erudition
Hypocrisy
forthrightness
rectitude
I chose rectitude but confused with the third option hypocrisy plz explain
I also would mark hypocrisy, because it is presented as a contrast (?). In the first part, it stated that for him money its not all and he is disinterested, but on the second part he demands a lot of money, so that belied that hi is a hypocrite. He says that money is not important but secretly it is.
Hey thanks man. It was pretty late in the night and and clearly I didn’t parse the sentence enough. Also, I confused it with an SE question 
…Hypocrisy makes a lot of sense, because here betray means revealing and not like stabbing behind the back…So clearly, its hypocrisy…because if you are wanting a huge salary hike but you are publicly denouncing greediness…The two sentences are just contrasting each other…This sounds clearly like a hypocrite.
What’s wrong with A? I think the answer is A.
The idea being contrasted here is not his acquisitive desire, but his contradictory behaviour. He disparages an action, and ends up doing it himself. Thus, the word hypocrisy.