Answer:
Opprobrium (which means scorn, contempt, or severe criticism). The word that emerges most clearly is “probe”, which in recent news most likely is associated with misconduct, wrongdoing, or corruption which inevitably leads to scorn, contempt, or severe criticism.
Number 4 would be a sentence fragment. hope this helps.
The phrase cease repining in the stanza means to stop being upset, because to cease something means to stop it or bring and end to it. The stanza is saying Be still, sad heart! and stop being upset.
"I have not known when his affections swayed"