How People Yield to Pressure

3 questions. Choose the meaning or usage that best fits each situation. Try answering before reopening the passage.

1What makes the steward's plea abject?A. Its respectful but firmly maintained objection.B. Its attempt to control every preference of the supervisor.C. Its extreme self-degradation and submission.D. Its concise correction of a factual error without self-abasement.

2A colleague who readily accepts another person's wishes without resistance is _____.A. commandingB. submissiveC. defiantD. independent

3Which action shows the supervisor being overbearing?A. He forces his preferences into every minor decision and treats questions as personal defiance.B. He explains a decision and revises it when a colleague identifies an error.C. He states a necessary task clearly and listens to practical objections.D. He accepts a colleague's harmless preference about the order of two tasks.

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