DIRECTIONS: ​In the passage given below there are 5 blanks, each followed by a word given in bold. Each blank has four alternative words given in options (1), (2), (3) and (4). You have to tell which word will best suit the respective blank. Mark (5) as your answer if the word given in bold after the blank is your answer i.e., No change required.

The threat of traditional “blood and iron” wars may have _______(A) [succumbed]- though its resurgence will always remain a possibility, particularly at a time of national weakness. However, the new ways of warfare inject “a different kind of _____(B) [languid] and cultural violence” that can be no less devastating. Its instrumentalities span the entire spectrum of human activity that can be _____(C) [instilled] to inflict harm on the target system, including ______(D) [condone] economics and trade, criminal and terrorist activities, cyber warfare, media manipulation and _____(E) [latency], technological and environmental conflict, as well as a wide array of patterns of social and political _____(F) [contingency]. _____(G) [overt] or conventional conflict may seem absent, but economic, political and social _____(H) [ accredited] in the target system can be exploited to engineer disruptions, violence, and collapse that are no less devastating. At the heart of India’s ____(I) [accruing] failure is incomprehension of the _____(J) [ latches] of power and an obsession with postures and theatre.