Discussion
The two artists differed markedly in their temperaments; Palmer was reserved and courteous, Frazer ____ and boastful.
Answer: D
Correct answer: choleric
The sentence is a balanced contrast: Palmer is given two qualities, Frazer two, and they must oppose each other. Boastful already opposes courteous, so the blank must oppose reserved.
Choleric - hot-tempered, quick to anger - is the opposite of reserved. Constrained, phlegmatic and tractable all suggest restraint, which would make the two artists alike and destroy the contrast the sentence announces.
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