- Although she admitted that her airport expansion plan had recently collapsed, the governer (1) ... the significance of the failure, pointing out that competing economic development proposals are now more (2) ....
(1) (A) minimized 
(B) touted (C) acknowledged
(2) (D) tenuous (B) complicated (C) important
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New Words
point out: to tell someone something that they did not already know or had not thought about
tout: to praise something or someone in order to persuade people that they are important or worth a lot
(Example) Nell is being touted as the next big thing in Hollywood.
competing: competing products/ brands/ companies etc are products that are trying to be more successful than each other
