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In each question below, a word is given followed by four sentences. Identify which of the sentences use the given word correctly in terms of both grammar and context. Word: DESPONDENCY 1. The quarterly earnings report, which revealed a third consecutive year of declining export revenues, cast a pall of despondency over the trading floor, with analysts revising their growth forecasts sharply downward before markets had even closed. 2. Chronic despondency among frontline healthcare workers — documented in multiple post-pandemic studies — has emerged as a systemic workforce crisis that hospital administrations have been structurally ill-equipped to address. 3. The committee’s despondency toward the proposed infrastructure bill was rooted not in ideological opposition but in legitimate technical reservations about the feasibility of its projected cost estimates. 4. Philosophers of the Stoic tradition argued that despondency, unlike genuine grief, is a failure of rational self-governance — an indulgence in perceived misfortune that wisdom and discipline can and must overcome.

A Only 2 and 4
B Only 1, 2 and 4
C Only 3 and 4
D Only 1 and 3
E All 1, 2, 3 and 4
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