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This sentence has a clear religious metaphor: CEO’s of tech companies are treated like deities. (C) reverential continues to metaphor, since the word is strongly tinged with a religious connotation. It detonation: to worship. The word “messianic”—describing Christ or some great savior—and “following their every move” indicates that we want a word that is strongly positive and that fits the religious context. (C) works best.

(A) is a little too neutral and doesn’t reflect the zeal (“messianic”, “following every move”) nor the religious nature of the sentence, the way that (C) does.

(B) means quiet and is the opposite of the context in the sentence.

(C) See above.

(D) means having mixed emotions, which doesn’t work in this case because the reaction to tech CEOs is not at all mixed; they are being worshipped.

(E) means constant. While this word matches the clue “following their every move”, it misses the bigger picture of how these tech-CEOs are held in awe.