Critical Reading > Sentence Completions

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Although the conference speakers disliked one another and might have been expected to -------, it turned out that on several substantive issues they were in complete ------- and were able to avoid petty squabbling.

(A) argue . . disagreement

(B) bristle . . apathy

(C) debate . . dissonance

(D) concur . . denial

(E) bicker . . accord 

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