He hails the USSR as a peace-loving country but depicts hitler as a treacherous fiend
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From the given choices: l<span>uxurious, arrogant, elegant, pretentious and fashionable
The words with positive connotation would be luxurious, elegant and fashionable. (there words represent a good sense of style of the described object/person).
The words arrogant and pretentious refer to the more egoistic qualities of people and do not have a positive connotation.
Hope I helped :) </span>
The first one is right. it joins two independent clauses with a comma followed by a conjunction.
