Having no sense of moral obligation, Shipler was as little subject to the ------- of conscience after he acted as he was motivated by its ------- before he acted.
- (A) rewards…chastisement
- (B) balm . . eloquence
- (C) reproaches . . promptings
- (D) ridicule…allure
- (E) qualms . . atonement
Can someone pls help explain why D is wrong? I narrowed it down to C and D and chose D as I thought allure was a better fit, but the correct answer is C.
I narrowed it down to C and D too but chose C because ‘ridicule’ did not make much sense in the first blank.
But don’t ridicule and reproach kind of have the same connotation? So how did you eliminate one over the other?
Whatever word we fill in the blank should relate to ‘conscience’ and ridicule/mockery by one’s own conscience made no sense to me whereas ‘reproaches of conscience’ made sense as in censure by one’s own conscience. This is how I chose C.