Fill in the blanks with the right choice of words.
Elinor _ to counteract her negative feelings, but only succeed in __ them.

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Tried – allaying

Hoped – Mitigating

Desired – Ameliorating

Hesitated – Deprecating

answer is D.

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Concept- The given judgment is a contrary judgment . The speaker is conveying that “ Elinor ” tried to do commodity and ended up doing commodity differently, which is fully contrary to that of what he originally preferred to do. Now, let us observe all the given options to pick out the correct option in the given question.
( 1) Tried – allaying. The word ‘ tried ’ is in the history and once participle of ‘ try ’. The other word ‘ assuaging ’ is a verb which means to dwindle to make commodity strong. It can’t be the rightt option.
2) Hoped – mitigating. ‘ Hope ’ is a feeling of anticipation and desire for a particular thing to be. The other word ‘ mitigating ’ is the action if reducing the inflexibility, soberness, or painfulness of commodity.
( 3) Wanted – Ameliorating. ‘ Desire ’ is a strong feeling of wanting to have commodity or wishing for commodity to be. The other word ‘ upgrading ’ is to make( commodity bad or wrong) better.
4) Endeavoured – Intensifying. ‘ Endeavoured' is to try hard to do or achieve commodity. The other word ‘ enhancing ’ is to come or to make commodity lesser or stronger. It can be the right answer for the given question.
Hence, The correct answer for this question is option 4.

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