I am pretty sure it is option "A."
Diligence by definition means to "careful and persistent work or effort"
So yeah the answer is A.
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Rhetoric is a type of question asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply, as "What is so rare as a day in June?"
I found this funnier then it should have been
This is D., a hyphen. I You would write it as 'old-fashioned'. There would only not be a hyphen if it was 'old fashion' without the 'ed' at the end.
Answer:
C. first is a word that normally starts a chronological sequence