I wasn’t able to solve the middle blank for quite a long time, my logic already let me think that it is a contrast when I read ‘fearing’ and then the rest of sentence just made more sense. But I missed inhibit in the sentence even though I intrinsically derived contrast from the whole sentence’s meaning. Did anyone of you face this too?
This is certainly a tricky one, especially because it’s a 3-blanker.
What’s important is the fact that you were able to solve it on your own.