For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

When he was alive, the magnate was described as arrogant, bitterly critical, and ____(i)____. Nevertheless, thespeaker, who was often the victim of his legendary ____(ii)____, was able to find ____(iii)____ things to say about him.

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Blank (i) Blank (ii) efficacious diatribes bellicose encomiums chastened eulogies Blank (iii) magnanimous imperious. vindictive