Directions: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Signs of a confrontation ___(1)___ Raj Bhavan and the elected government in a State ___(2)___ not infrequent in the country. The onus often appears to be on the Chief Ministers to ___(3)___ a constitutional crisis, as evidenced by Pinarayi Vijayan trying to ___(4)___ peace with a miffed Governor, Arif Mohammed Khan, rather than pursue a confrontational course, over several issues in recent times. One way of seeing these developments is to attribute them to the ___(5)___ of those who have been politically active in the recent past as Governors and the partisan role they play as ___(6)___ of the Centre. However, the problems may have to do with the way they understand their ___(7)___ powers. Constrained by the ‘aid and advice’ clause in their routine functioning, some Governors seem to be using the discretionary space ___(8)___ to them to keep regimes on tenterhooks. A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court laid down in 1974 that the President and Governor shall “exercise their formal constitutional powers only upon and in accordance with the advice of their Ministers save in a few well-known exceptional situations” — “situations” also illustratively listed. Yet, there is the extraordinary situation of some Governors not acting upon requests to grant ___(9)___ or assent to Bills; and, in one instance in Tamil Nadu, a reluctance to reserve for the President’s consideration a Bill that expressly requires Presidential ___(10)___ because of obvious conflict with a central law.