The second option is the correct one.
Mildreds choice to not tell montag about clarisse was insidious because the fact that Mildred forgot to tell montag about Clarisse death emphasizes their shallow, meaningless relationship as well as mildred’s ignorant , insensitive personality
Possibly, the word needed to fill the blank and complete the
sentence would be ‘overall’, which means the ‘added’ or the ‘totaled’ let’s say
score of a certain aspect. The sentence would be:
The overall combined score moved the competitor to the top of
the scoreboard.
The sentence means that the competitor or candidate, possibly
in a contest of example, sports have different scores and when added, the total
score put the person (the competitor) atop everyone else during the
competition.
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