While the famed novelist’s first book was full of lively stories and nail-biting finishes, it seems as though she might have run out of material; the sequel is a book full of all but __________.
options -
1>wit
2>intuition
3>dogma
4>bombast
5>vivacity
all but denotes contrast ,so , the blank should be similiar to "lively stories and nail-biting finishes" or vivacity?