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<p>Ignoring the growing accusations of ------- , Governor Anderson appointed yet another of his personal friends to a well-compensated government position.</p>
<pre><code>(A) propriety
(B) indolence
(C) cronyism
(D) sensationalism
(E) nepotism
</code></pre>
<p>Wouldn’t both nepotism and cronyism work in that sentence?</p>
<p>yeah originally i picked nepotism… but then it said that nepotism was wrong. So I googled both definitions of nepotism and cronyism and they both mean favoring friends or relatives by giving them jobs. I really dont know and was actually about to post a similar thread.</p>
<p>Nepotism is the appointment of family members to jobs, while cronyism is the appointment of personal friends. Since the two are so similar, this is an understandably difficult question, but the answer is definitely cronyism.</p>
<p>Turns out the words do differ.</p>
<p>Nepotism refers to favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship whereas Cronyism is the practice of favoring one’s close friends (in both cases, in politics or business.)</p>
<p>So the correct answer is, in this case, Cronyism.</p>