Having trouble with rephrasing the sentence

GRE General
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When i didn’t look at the answer choice , i chose ‘enough’. My rephrasing of the first part being: If they had little powers, they were insufficient and thus i put ‘enough’ in second part. Was it story mode? OR, is ‘enough’ = ’ commensurate for ’ here.

Another question is:
Is ‘higher than’ a right guess here before looking at the answer choice. I mean we don’t know if the powers were higher than or not right. Is it not ‘NE’? How should this question be interpreted. I am really having hard time although this looks simple. Basically, i am having a hard time tearing this question apart. Please help me on it. Thankyou.
@gregmat

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  1. You should first try to rephrase the idea before the blank, the main idea is- power and satisfaction were low. Now contrast it: although power and satisfaction were low in actualisation, in their desire it was evident.
    “Enough” is not equal to commensurate for, because they wanted power and attention in their mind. Another trick is process of elimination - we can negate C,D and E with the aforementioned logic, and as it’s a contrast “simultaneous” is wrong
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Thankyou for your response.
I don’t understand what ’ in their desire it was evident’ means. Is my rephrasing wrong to say Less power means not sufficient?

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Commensurate does indeed mean enough here: even though their powers were few, they were up to the task for their few desires.