Answer:
1. Option B: CODDLED
2. Option A: DEMAGOGUE
Explanation:
1. Because he was CODDLED as a child, Rob was a rather self-centred teenager.
The correct option is B: Coddled because the adjective refers to the parenting method and how it resulted in his posterior self-centred personal feature.
Option A: Bourgeois cannot be the correct one because it is more related with the social position that someone has, which mustn´t have a direct relationship with his self-centred behaviour; option C: Despotic is not correct because it doesn´t respect the rule of action-reaction that the sentence needs to express; option D: Dubious is not the one because in a contextual view of the sentence it doesn’t make sense.
Tip: Notice that to fill this blank you need an adjective.
2. After hearing the raucous, cheering response to Adam’s speech, Mr James feared that his new student body president might be an amateur DEMAGOGUE.
The correct option is A: Demagogue because, thinking in the sentence context, the noun that here appears corresponds to the reaction that Adam´s speech had. Option B: Despot can´t be the correct one because if it were elected the sentence would be a contradiction: a despot one doesn´t provoke a raucous and cheering response. Option C: enigma is not adequate to the context by the same reasons of option B (it doesn´t apply if we consider the sentence´s meaning), and finally option D: bourgeois is not the one because it doesn´t make sense since it is not related to the statement of the sentence.
Tip: Notice that to fill this blank you need a noun.
