<li>As expected, the candidates speech was characterized by a lack of ------ and a wealth of ------.</li>
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<p>(A) personality…eloquence
(B) profundity…banality
(C) petulance…flippancy
(D) patronage…nepotism
(E) partisanship…obliqueness</p>
<p>Is the answer A?</p>
<p>I'm not sure.</p>
<p>This is sort of an ambiguous sentence completion question... But I would think (B) is the answer.</p>
<p>A major clue is "As expected" = "wealth of banality" (AKA-- a lot of trite, same-old, cliche stuff-- expected) So if it is full of all this trite BS, then it lacks anything profound or deep/meaningful.</p>
<p>subsidon, I don't see why a "lack of personality" works with "wealth of eloquence" because eloquence could be a description of his/her personality.</p>
<p>yea (B) sounds better to me now</p>
<p>the two have to be opposites</p>
<p>B is the only answer that has the needed contrast.</p>