I have two sentence completion questions and they don't have explanations, need help~
1. Glendon provides a dark underside to Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis that saw rugged individualism as the essence of American society- an individualism that she sees as________atomism.
(a) antithetical toward
(b) skeptical of
© degenerating into
(d) aspiring to
(e) renewed by
2. The texts we have them were written down and edited carefully by Christians proud of their ancestors but unstable to bear the thought of their indulging in heathen practices; thus, all references to the ancient religion of the Celts were_______, if not_______.
(a) deleted...expunged
(b) muddied...suppressed
© labored...denigrated
(d) aggrieved...overawed
(e) obscure...ironic
my answers are
1. d
2. a
but the OA are
1. c
2. b
can someone explain these to me?
thanks