Comprehension Passage

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blanks out of the given alternatives.

The code the Peaky Blinders live by is, by necessity, fascist. Tommy demands ___(1)___ loyalty from those that claim membership. Their mantra when laying down the law, “By order of the Peaky Blinders!” collapses individual action into a collective ___(2)___, by which every act of violence is an act of the masses. Tommy’s goals are decidedly expansionist as his criminal empire grows, crossing demarcated boundaries of other gangs and essentially employing the police force to do his bidding. The entire family ___(3)___ in the power the name gives them, even Ada, who wavers back and forth in her involvement in the business. Despite the unease this use of power creates, it’s damn hard not to revel in it with them. We are as sold on this legitimization of violence as much as we are on those haircuts. Sam Claflin’s Oswald Mosley forces Tommy Shelby to engage in a moral dilemma quite unlike those posed in previous seasons. Mosley is not a gangster, he’s a politician, and he announces his intentions in clipped, persuasive tones: the formation of the British Union of Fascists. In one of the best scenes between the two men, Mosley reveals he’s an ___(4)___ to a—typically sophomoric—interpretation of Nietzchean thought, which plays neatly into racist ideology; Tommy admits being unfamiliar with the philosophy, although he knows his Freud. Knowing what we know, not only about the war to come, but also the resurgence of fascism around the world in the last several years, it’s impossible to watch it now and not see that a gauntlet has been thrown down. When Mosley takes the stage at the Shelby family’s ill-fated private ballet, he builds into an eloquent, ___(5)___ anthem for nativism that will send chills down the spine of anyone who’s been sentient for the Trump years.

Which of the following words fits the blank labelled as (5)?

1
Soothing
2
Obstreperous
3
Tedious
4
Menacing
5
Deplorable

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