For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

The term “robber barons”, which refers to those powerful business moguls at the turn of the 19th Century, is hardly a(n) (i), ?despite some of these robber barons outward gestures of philanthropy. Infamous for their insatiable (ii), the robber barons were finally held in check by the ascendancy of a more powerful centralized government.