The answers for the blanks can be either "increase" and "decrease" or "encourage" and "discourage."
Answer:
C and E (industrious and vigorous )
Explanation:
To be an industrious individuals means to be a hardworking, dedicated and diligent individual with a tireless and energetic attitude.
Vigorous personality means to be full of energetic and enthusiastic attitude. These were the best right choice of answer owing to the clue gotten from the subsequent phrase "his penmanship carried such preponderance" which shows poet Hanz Joerin was energetic enthusiastic and vigorous in writing. This is also implied by the statement "ink would bleed through to subsequent pages",
Roosevelt relied on the US having a strong navy
