In her later years, Bertha Pappenheim was an apostle of noble but already (i) notions, always respected for her integrity, her energy, and her resolve but increasingly out of step and ultimately (ii) even her own organization.
Blank (i): anachronistic, accepted, exoticBlank (ii): emulated by, appreciated by, alienated from
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Navneet Kumar
Can you please explain the structure of the sentence here? Do we have a parallel 'cause' created : (+ but - , + but -) followed by an 'effect' of her being alienated from the organization?
We don't really have any direct cause and effect relationships here.
There is certainly the suggestion of possible cause and effect, though. It seems possible that BP's "anachronistic" ideas caused her to become alienated from here own organization.
If that's the case, we have a cause of BP having anachronistic attitudes, and the effect of her becoming "increasingly out of step" and "alienated."
This cause-effect relationship is strongly implied, but it's not really the key to solving this Verbal problem. Instead, you want to focus on the two shift words-- the two buts-- in terms of what the connotation of the words are before the shift words and after them.
While exotic means "strikingly strange or unusual," the term doesn't necessarily describe something negative. An exotic landscape, for example, may be beautiful but unfamiliar to the person viewing it.
(https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/exotic)
On the other hand, for the first blank, we want a word that describes a negative characteristic that led to the estrangement or isolation of Pappenheim. We can imagine that having "anachronistic" ideas, or ideas that belong to a different time, would lead to Pappenheim to be out of touch with those in her organization, isolating her from it.
She is a supporter of noble (good) but "-----" notions. The "but" is one hint that we want something that is negative. We also know that she is "increasingly out of step" (not in harmony with something). So we want a word that means "out of step." I hope this helps.
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